Friday, October 1, 2004

[1903 - Boston Americans play Pittsburgh Pirates in game 1 of modern World Series]

Williams

He was not my friend, but I came to know him.
He said James Joyce was a great humorist; I thought him surely mad.
Then he began to read aloud passages he had selected from Ulysses.
I cannot remember any time in my life that I have laughed harder or longer.

Some say Williams could be exquisitely cruel and abusive.
If this was so, it was because his crooked finger pointed straight at the truth.
He did not suffer fools, nor did he take prisoners.
It is said that he taught himself Latin and was translating the works of the poet Ovid.
No one seems to know what became of him.

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