Morning Coffee

Passed on from Goldberg, from Richard Ben Cramer's writings about Ted Williams (second graph in a 1986 excerpt for Esquire):

"It was forty-five years ago, when achievements with a bat first brought him to the nation's notice, that Ted Williams began work on his defense. He wanted fame, and wanted it with a pure, hot eagerness that would have been embarrassing in a smaller man. But he could not stand celebrity. This is a bitch of a line to draw in America's dust."

Keith is right. "Bitchin'" graph.