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The Rose Parade route ends a few blocks from my house so I headed over in hopes to meet a few strangers. Ted really stood out from the crowd with his all American looks and huge drum. He is in the band for Wisconsin and he had just finished the 5 mile walk and his free double double from In-N-Out. Ted's next stop would be the Rosebowl where his team lost in a tough battle that went down to the last minute.
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Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams
Inducted to the Hall of Fame in: 1966
Primary team: Boston Red Sox
Primary position: Left Fielder
Ted Williams always knew what he wanted. Others could debate who was the best all-around player in baseball history. Williams was a hitter. "All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived,'" Williams said.
He accomplished his goal. Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron may have been better power hitters. You could argue that the graceful Joe DiMaggio or Willie Mays was a better all-around player. If you’re talking about the greatest hitter that ever stepped into the batters box, the discussion begins with the long-time Red Sox left fielder.
Williams wrote the book on hitting--his “The Science Of Hitting” disproves the adage that great hitters can’t teach hitting.
He won six batting titles, but that doesn’t really explain his mastery at the plate. Thanks to an excellent batting eye, Williams led the American League in on-base percentage seven straight years and 12 times overall. His .482 career on-base percentage is the best of all time. And he wasn’t just doing it with walks and singles. Williams led the AL in home runs four times, and his .634 career slugging percentage is second to only Ruth.
He did all of it despite missing most of five seasons due to military service. He learned to fly fighter planes during World War II, working as an instructor from 1943-1945. He was recalled to duty in 1952 during the height of the Korean War, and he served in Korea for more than a year, flying combat missions in a Marine fighter jet.
That missed time explains why the game’s greatest hitter didn’t reach 3,000 hits. After missing the all-star game as a rookie, Williams was an all-star in every non-military interrupted season of the rest of his career. He wasn’t just being grandfathered in. In his final season, 1960, as a 41-year-old, he hit .316 with 29 home runs. His body may have been failing him, but his ability to hit never left.
Williams’ goal was never to be beloved. He took his hitting into the outfield early in his career--he’d practice swings between pitches. Those kind of quirks and some signs of defensive indifference didn’t always endear him to Red Sox’ fans. His relationship with the Boston community wasn’t helped by along-running feud between Williams and much of the Boston media. The newspapermen didn’t make Williams’ life any easier, but Williams didn’t help himself with his legendary stubborness. The same personality that ensured he could remember a pitch that struck him out three months before was not going to forget any slights inflicted by a hostile press.
After his retirement, the memories of his difficulties with fans slowly retreated, while the memories of his amazing career, and his honorable military service became more and more prominent. By the time he threw out the first pitch for the 1999 all-star game, he was revered as a baseball treasure, as the game’s best current players mobbed Williams to touch and talk to the game’s biggest star.
Source: baseballhall.org
Whenever Ted stops by for a visit, I can always count on him to clean up after himself.. Dispite his reputation as a wild man - he's quite polite and curtious...
She looked so radiant and electric at night in the courtyard of the TED conference, with the neon backlit waterfall, that I had to try an extreme shot without tripod (100mm, f/2, ISO 6400).
I met so many Model S owners there. An Apple engineer noted my interest and gave me a Serbian bill with Tesla on it, from a roll of bills he had with him to hand out to Tesla fans.
I had the pleasure last night of meeting, photographing and hearing Ted play at the Revelation Made in Ashford gig a collaboration with Ted Clark Laura Calnan ,Cannon Woods and the Revelation Strings although I was working the music was great and made it a wonderful experiance.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Ted Barron
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.26001
Call Number: LC-B2- 4457-12
Taken in 2006.
That wincing expression on Ted Williams's face is meant to be a smile. This statue of him -- the great Red Sox hitter -- on Van Ness Street shows him in his Red Sox uniform with a bat over his left shoulder. He's placing his hat on the head of a young Jimmy Fund patient -- who has Williams's number 9 on his shirt.
On his own, Ted Williams started a tradition of visiting children at the Jimmy Fund Clinic of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Boston Braves had made the Jimmy Fund their official charity, and when they left for Milwaukee in 1953, the Red Sox adopted it, beginning what stands today as the most enduring relationship in all of major league sports.
Little Ted is 50 years old now, I was given him when I was a baby but I've just realised I don't know who gave him to me? I just always had him, funny that. I must ask my Mom. He's been hidden away in a chest of drawers for many years but I've rectified that now & he's sitting on a shelf taking in his new surroundings. He didn't drink much wine don't worry.
For 117 Pictures 2017 #16 Have a Party with Your Bear Day. I'm not really in partying mood. I'm still recovering from a flu bug myself, Poppy our dog is on her last legs & we've also had to cope with with the dreadful news that Martin's sister in the UK died unexpectedly last week. She wasn't a well lady but it was a shock, she was only 63 bless her. Martin has the flu now, real flu not man flu. TLC & Lemsip are the order of the day. These things are sent to try us.
I stumbled across this time capsule from TED 2002, the 12th TED. It was the transition year from Richard Saul Wurman to Chris Anderson. The speaker highlight pamphlet had this creative art... I was on the page with Dean Kamen, astronaut Mae Jemison and Quincy Jones. Tech, Entertainment and Design write large, on our face
Siguiendo con el muñequito. En esta ocasión he puesto en practica la "técnica Polaroid" que Carmen Romero ( www.flickr.com/photos/carmen_moreno/) explica en su blog:
carmenmorenophotography.blogspot.com/2009/03/efecto-polar...
El mensaje de Einstein.
German postcard by Filmbilder-Vertrieb Ernst Freihoff, Essen, no. 547. Photo: Joe Möller.
German singer and film actor Ted Herold (1942) was billed as The German Elvis in the late 1950s and early 1960s. With his Rock ‘n Roll covers, he appeared in several Schlagerfilms between 1959 and 1963. In 1977 he made a surprise come-back.
Ted Herold was born as Harald Walter Bernhard Schubring in Berlin-Schöneberg; in 1942. He was the son of a plasterer. In 1951 his family moved to Bad Homburg. As a boy already had a passion for music, especially for US Rock 'n' Roll songs by Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, and most of all Elvis Presley. At the age of 14, he had gotten his first guitar as a Christmas present. At school, he started to play these songs. In 1958 a girlfriend from school mediated a contract for him with the record company Polydor. That same year followed his first single with two cover versions of Elvis hits, Ich brauch' keinen Ring (Want you to wear my ring around your neck) and Lover Doll. His producer Bert Kaempfert came up with the pseudonym Ted Herold. After his first success, he moved on to top producer Gerhard Mendelson, who already managed the career of teen idol Peter Kraus. While Kraus got more success with milder songs, Herold was build up as the new ‘German Elvis’. Till 1960 Herold sang mainly German covers of Presley hits. With a line from his song Ich bin ein Mann (I am a man), the then 17-year-old singer caused a sensation in prudish postwar-Germany. The German radio refused to play the song.
Ted Herold broadened his song repertoire in 1960 with more mild titles, just like his role model Elvis. Among his hits were covers like Ich bin ein Wanderer (The Wanderer) and Da Doo Ron Ron. The ballad Moonlight became with 500,000 sold singles his biggest hit and climbed to #1 in the hit parade. Herold, who still had the image of a rebel rocker, did not get any engagements from the conservative German television till the mid-1960s. But between 1959 and 1963 he was often seen in several musical films. He made his film debut in the musical comedy La Paloma (Paul Martin, 1959) with Bibi Johns and Karlheinz Böhm. He sang the song, Texas Baby. That same year followed Immer die Mädchen/Always the Girls (Fritz Remond, 1959) in which he sang Hula-Rock, and Mein Schatz, komm mit ans blaue Meer/My Darling, Come to the Blue Sea (Rudolf Schündler, 1959) with Gus Backus, in which Ted sang Küss mich. The success of Schlagerparade (Franz Marischka, 1960) with Herold, Vivi Bach, Rex Gildo, and many other Schlager stars led to sequels as Schlagerparade 1961 (Franz Marischka, 1961) and Schlagerrevue 1962 (Thomas Engel, 1961). Other films of the same genre include Davon träumen alle Mädchen/That’s What All The Girls Dream About (Thomas Engel, 1961) with Marion Michael, Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol/Three Love Letters from Tyrol (1962, Werner Jacobs) with Ann Smyrner, and Sing, aber spiel nicht mit mir/Sing,But Don’t Play With Me (Kurt Nachmann, 1963). In 1963 military service interrupted his career. His following singles had less success than before, also because of the upcoming beat wave. He started a study to become a radio and tv technician and married in 1965 Karin Höhler. In 1966 he recorded his last single with Polydor and then retired to run a radio and television repair service.
In 1977 Ted Herold became a surprising offer from German rock singer Udo Lindenberg to cooperate on a title of his LP Panische Nächte, and to join him on a tour through Germany. Ted got a new record deal with Teldec and started to produce new titles, including Rockabilly-Willi, Bill Haley, Die Besten sterben jung and Rock'n'Roll For President. He sang them with his old classics during many gigs at the height of the Rock 'n' Roll revival. He was the guest of many TV shows and appeared as a rock singer in the German-American coproduction Judgment in Berlin (Leo Penn, 1988) starring Martin Sheen. Ted Herold married in 2002 his longtime companion Manuela. In 2005 he had a new hit with 1958 - wir waren dabei (1958 – we were there). He made guest appearances in the tv series Die Kommissarin (2000) and Lindenstraße (2007). Last year his 26th album was presented, Jukebox Jeans Rock'n'Roll. Fifty years earlier, when Elvis Presley was posted in Germany by the U.S. Army, the German Elvis had met the original once in the streets of Bad Homburg. Herold had talked to his big idol for some moments and had given him some of his own records.
Sources: Wikipedia, Dieter Moll (IMDb), Ted Herold-Die Legende des Rock ’n Roll, and IMDb.
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