Looking Into The #USSenate #chamber At The #EMK #Institute As Dick Flavin Recites Some Poems From His

Scored a copy of Bob Ryan's "Scribe," due out in October from Bloomsbury. #bea14 #beahappy2read

Ted loved to cruise around

An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:

Ted couldn’t afford his own car as a kid, but loved to cruise around San Diego with those who did have wheels. Bill Skelley, a teammate of Ted’s on the 1937 Padres, had a 1929 maroon Chrysler roadster, and they’d glide down Broadway with the top down, or zip through Balboa Park. When they passed a golf course, and someone was getting ready to tee off, Ted would reach over and honk the horn to try and disrupt the golfer. “Just fooling around,” Skelley says.

Girls? Forget it. “I never went out with girls, never had any dates, not until I was much more mature-looking,” Ted wrote in his autobiography. “A girl looked at me twice, I’d run the other way.” 

(Photo:  Ted Williams tipping his hat at the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway Park.)

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

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So @sidecardoughnuts gave out free samples today for #nationaldonutday even though they don't open for another week. #SantaMonica #sidecardoughnuts #huckleberry

Great shot of "The Kid". The definitive biography of Ted Williams is coming from Little, Brown this December from author Ben Bradlee Jr. 

Ted Williams

Spring Training

1971

Photo: Ozzie Sweet/ Sport Magazine

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Was at this event and the best part was seeing all the folks wearing their Cancer Votes stickers hours after the debate. 

Cancer Votes Massachusetts was out last week at the U.S. Senate candidate debate in Springfield, MA, the third of four scheduled debates between Rep. Scott Brown (R) and Elizabeth Warren (D).

Cancer Votes volunteers and staff spent time talking with supporters from both campaigns about why cancer needs to be a national priority, and six volunteers and staff were able to attend the sold-out debate.

And Cancer Votes volunteer Pat Spain from North Andover gave several interviews to reporters, including one with NPR!

According to Cancer Votes staffer Patricia Mallios, volunteers and staff were able to meet a lot of people and many of them kept their stickers on during the debate and were interested in hearing about Cancer Votes.

Photos: Cancer Votes volunteers Ellen Croibier, Peter Levine, Pat Spain, Anna Nguyen, Nora Wallace and staff Patricia Mallios, Erica Concors and Whitney Thomas and supporters of both candidates.

Fixing up the mural at #UnCommonGrounds in #Watertown

Line for #Amish doughnuts snakes through the parking lot of the Farm Market. #amazing #latergram

@billbrettboston and a few of his friends... At the Kennedy Library for a forum on #BostonIrish.

That's famed photographer #PeterSimon taking grabbing a shot of Charlie Colin, Carly Simon #SallyTaylor and Danny of Foster Children at the @Consenses opening dinner