Two of the finest profiles you will ever, ever read.
Richard Ben Cramer on Ted Williams from 1986, What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? — “regarded as perhaps the finest piece of sportswriting on record” — and Rick Reilly on Bryant Gumbel from 1988, The Mourning Anchor.
Among the finest writing I’ve seen lately, even if the essays are 23 and 25 years old.
Bohner and the Republicans should read this endorsement of Medicare by the great Ted Williams: “Here it is, right here, too. Best hospital in Miami. Expensive sonofabitch, boy. Christ. I’m all for Medicare. And I’ve always thought that, ALWAYS thought that.”