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Honest I just took the photo! @BillBrettBoston at Book Ends in Winchester. get a copy of "Boston: Irish"

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.)

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#stuffonscoutshead - it’s beginning to feel a lot like the holidays.

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An explainer on Twitter, by John Herrman. (via zzzzaaaacccchhh)

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#AndThenThisHappened! They're just arriving (in batches) in town. @BillBrettBoston's fifth book, BOSTON: IRISH. They make great Christmas gifts...

Another day another show. On Brattle Street. Sunday morning. Shhh!

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NETFLIX KNOWS EXACTLY HOW MANY EPISODES IT TAKES TO GET ALL-OUT ADDICTED TO A TV SHOW

Arrow — Episode 8

Bates Motel — Episode 2

Better Call Saul — Episode 4

Bloodline — Episode 4

BoJack Horseman — Episode 5

Breaking Bad — Episode 2

Dexter — Episode 3

Gossip Girl — Episode 3

Grace & Frankie — Episode 4

House of Cards — Episode 3

How I Met Your Mother — Episode 8

Mad Men — Episode 6

Marco Polo — Episode 3

Marvel’s Daredevil — Episode 5

Once Upon a Time — Episode 6

Orange is the New Black — Episode 3

Pretty Little Liars — Episode 4

Scandal — Episode 2

Sense8 — Episode 3

Sons of Anarchy — Episode 2

Suits — Episode 2

The Blacklist — Episode 6

The Killing — Episode 2

The Walking Dead — Episode 2

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Episode 4

It’s never the pilot, so… take that as you will, broadcast television.

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Bill, Kerry Brett celebrate Boston women

- Photographer Bill Brett, whose “Party Lines” feature runs weekly in the Globe, was at the new Smith & Wollensky last night celebrating his new book, “Boston Inspirational Women,” a collection of photos of some of Boston’s most prominent women that he shot with his daughter, photographer Kerry Brett.

Ted: “Let’s malt up”

An exclusive excerpt of Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:   Growing up, Ted liked to hang out at the Majestic Malt Shop, not far from his house, where you could buy 10-inch-high malts for a quarter. Or at Doc Powelson’s drug store across from Hoover High School, often mixing the malts with eggs in his perpetual quest to gain weight. (“Let’s malt up,” Ted would say to his friends.)

There was time for mischief, though nothing too serious. Once, Ted and his brother climbed a nearby water tower, got stuck, and the fire department was called to get them down. On Halloween, Ted would join his pals in greasing the trolley tracks to play havoc with the streetcars. One year, the group pilfered some fruit from downtown storefronts with the intention of using it to raise hell that night. The police caught them. Most were apologetic and let go, but Ted was a smart aleck, so he was hauled in to the station. The cops ended up playing pinochle with him and driving him home at midnight, charmed. But beyond such childish pranks, Williams was straight as an arrow—never smoked a cigarette as a kid, always in bed by 10:00. 

(PHOTO: Danny Williams, Ted’s brother, at work on his truck. May Williams Collection)