Four Old Friends
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They never won the Series, but they won at friendships that lasted over sixty years. Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doer, and Johnny Pesky shared the ups and downs of baseball and ended up remembering everything. And that's the point. While we all talk about the importance of the journey, not the results, these four worried about today's results - and then argued about them for the next sixty years. Ted dominated while they played, Dom figured out where he fit and worked hard to keep his skills, Bobby remained the good guy and Johnny, well, it ends up that Johnny, after a long sojourn managing a lot of different major league and minor league teams, could finally admit that he liked managing in the minors better.
Why the story? Sixty years of friendship is a goal any one should try for.
Halberstam, David. The Teammates. Hyperion Books. 2003.