Ted Williams

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." — Rogers Hornsby Florida's welcoming arms have always been home to baseball greats like Hornsby and a parade of...

Attended my first IronPigs game of the season as a fan tonight (Thursday). I was there on Opening Night as a columnist, but the "fan" games are more enjoyable. Nice Bethlehem Steel hats were given out. Of course, I didn't get one. Have to get there...

He's no Justin Bieber, but Ted Williams also owes his burgeoning success on YouTube.The former radio announcer who hit rock bottom after falling victim to......

'Mega Millions' numbers get 'Lost': The $355 million lottery included four of the seven mysterious numbers Hurley (Jorge Garcia) used to win the lottery on ABC's "Lost." We suggest the two multi-million-dollar winners avoid flights to LAX. [CBS News]...

He has become an Internet sensation as the man with "the golden radio voice." And now, Ted Williams, who is homeless, will appear on "Today" on Thursday....

People's Choice Awards: "The Twilight Saga" and "House" won big, but more importantly: What did Zac Efron do to his hair?! [Ministry of Gossip] Ted Williams reunites with mother: The golden-voiced Williams, who was out on the street until a viral video...

BASEBALL LEGEND: A series of fortuitous events turned an 18-year-old bookkeeper who had never played organized baseball into a Hall of Famer. STATUS: True. With the fact that both Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, two of the best baseball players......

"No Easy Way" By Fred Bowen, illustrations by Charles S. Pyle Dutton, $16.99, ages 7-9 Here's a good antidote to recent doses of sports and steroids. Its subtitle is "The story of Ted Williams and the last .400 season" and the recurring mantra is, "There...

LOS ANGELES — Little has come easy for the St. Francis High football team this season. Thus, even facing a struggling Cathedral squad, St. Francis was forced to rally in dramatic fashion. With 42 seconds left, and his team trailing by one,...

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — The Glendale YMCA Quarterback Club, in its 68th year, meets Tuesday's at the Elk's Lodge. The following are odds and ends from the 11th and final meeting. COACHES HAND OUT AWARDS After more than four months of film sessions,...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Maui Invitational, seventh place game, 1:30 p.m. (ESPNU), fifth place game, 6:30 p.m. (ESPNU), third place game, 4 p.m. (ESPN2), championship game, 9 p.m. (ESPN); Preseason NIT, semifinals, Virginia Commonwealth vs....

The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner: 572 pp., $30 Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies," a remarkable history of the 4,000-year-old war on cancer, shines a focused beam of light on a disease...