The following is excerpted from Being Ted Williams: Growing Up With a Baseball Idol by Dick Enberg. Copyright © 2018 by Dick Enberg and Tom Clavin/English. Courtesy of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Thank goodness Ted Williams loved to walk everywhere. Maybe he had no choice, with all that restless energy bursting to get out between games
Okay, let me explain. It was thanks to Ted’s penchant for walking rather than taking taxis that allowed me as a high-schooler to get as close as I dared to The Kid. And thanks also go to dear old Briggs Stadium, once home of the Detroit Tigers.