Ted Williams

Remembering Stan Musial

It's a truism that American men are first conscious of their own mortality when their fathers die, but I would argue that such consciousness is a process for the average American male that usually begins earlier, the men pictured on his baseball cards start dying. When I was a kid in 1963, Stan Mus ... More >>

Derek Jeter: What Are the Yankees Going to Do With Him?

​Derek Jeter is my favorite player -- that is, my family's favorite player. I have played the 3,000th-hit homer over and over. It is my favorite baseball moment of the new century, with the possible exception of Johnny Damon's race to third base in the World Series against the Phillies. Now, ... More >>

When Reddit Goes Wrong: Girlfriend Takes to Website When She Finds Her Man E-Creeping

​Reddit, the extremely popular social news website and message board, is a breeding ground for many of the internet's finest things. This week alone, videos of Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden radio voice, and an exploding manhole made early appearances on the site before skyrock ... More >>

Homeless Man With Stellar Radio Voice is Taking His Talents to the Cleveland Cavaliers

Yesterday the internet was ablaze with praise for Ted Williams, a Brooklyn-born homeless man in Ohio with a special talent. His voice, as it turns out, is that of a male angel, deep and booming, perfect for voice-over work, which Williams said alcohol and drugs had derailed him from landing. Now two ... More >>

Homeless Man With Golden Voice Now a National Celebrity With New Problems

​Along with the rest of the internet, and now apparently the real world, we've been singing the praises of Ted Williams, the Ohio homeless man who sounds like Don LaFontaine, but better. He lost his way and was panhandling with a sign promising a "God given gift of voice" until a local newspap ... More >>

Homeless Man Has the Perfect Radio Voice

Ted Williams, a homeless man in Ohio, may very well be famous yet. In the above clip from the Columbus Dispatch, Williams is shown panhandling on the side of the road. "I have a God given gift of voice," read his sign. "I'm an ex-radio announcer who has fallen on hard times. Please!" He's not joking ... More >>

R.I.P. 2010's Jazz Notables

Honoring this year's fallen, with a few we failed to note last year

Ken Burns Outed as a Red Sox Fan

​The Tenth Inning, the two-part, four-hour update of Ken Burns's 1994 documentary Baseball, airs tonight and tomorrow night (September 28-29) on PBS. We caught up with the show's creator and co-director, Ken Burns, at Yankee Stadium last week before the tribute to George Steinbrenner. Are ... More >>

Clip Job: A Messy Birth for the World-Journal-Tribune

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 22, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 49 A Newsman Views The Newest Paper By Stan Fischler After a lengthy courtship, the Journal-American, World Telegram and Sun, and Herald-Tribune finally joined their presses in journalistic marriage l ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Twitpic by Paris Hilton. "Bentley was so cute last night. Carnival is such a fun place to go. A must see place when you go to New York." What? Oh. The week started with rightbloggers cheering President Obama's for losing the Olympics and ends with them booing him for winning the Nobel Peace ... More >>

Ted Willams' frozen head: Alcor responds

​ Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the company involved in yesterday's story about the misadventures of Ted Williams' frozen head, responds: October 2, 2009: The Alcor Life Extension Foundation denies the outrageous allegations against it that have appeared in the media this week. Alcor espe ... More >>

Ted Williams' Head Even More Banged Up Than We Thought

​Even the most die-hard of Yankees fans might feel a little pity for their Red Sox counterparts today. The Daily News reports that legendary Red Sox slugger Ted Williams' frozen head was used in batting practice at the Alcor Life Extension clinic. Williams' legacy took a different kind of hit ... More >>

Jockbeat: Baseball's Striking Anniversary

​Do you remember where you were 15 years ago today?  Wherever you were, you probably woke up, like me, to the startling revelation that "There's no baseball today!"In fact, as we'll never forget, there was no baseball for the rest of the year -- none in fact until April of 1995.   A ... More >>

Interview: MSNBC's Willie Geist on New York Baseball, His Jeter Love, His Desire to Drill Pedroia, and More

​ We're pleased to see that our Morning Joe favorite Willie Geist has finally been given his own TV show. Way Too Early With Willie Geist now leads off MSNBC's morning schedule, airing (if one "airs" on cable) at 5:30 a.m. (That's 2:30 a.m. Pacific time, where the show is no doubt known as Wa ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Love in the Time of Intolerance

Missed connections and racist rants

Jockbeat: Why is Jerry Crowe Such an Asshole?

First off, anything written about St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman Albert Pujols should begin with a sentence along the lines of "He's the greatest player in the game today, and the best player so far in the 20th century. And, probably, one of the 20 greatest players of all time." He didn't do ... More >>

Jockbeat: How Important Was Don Fehr to Baseball?

The late great Dodgers and Yankees announcer Red Barber once called Major League Baseball Players Association founder Marvin Miller "one of the three most important men in baseball history, right up there with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson." (Branch Rickey, who brought Robinson into baseball and cre ... More >>

God Bless the USA Is a Monster

A fantastic prog-noise institution goes out on top

Lit Seen: John Updike and John Leonard, Writers at Rest

New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

Ask a Mexican: Don't Believe the Jimi Hendrix Mexican Hype

Court Backs Council Metal Bat Ban

Can Cooperstown Save Baseball?

The Hall of Fame's mountains of memorabilia might not be enough to salvage the sport's tarnished legacy

Mets and Yankees: If Neither One Wins It's a Shame

Peering into the dugouts of the hometown heroes

Steroid Ball: Palmeiro’s Numbers Don’t Add Up

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The Second Annual Cryogenic Baseball Quiz

Ted Williams Is Still Cold, but You're Getting Warmer.

Not the Retiring Type

Rickey Fits Into New Jersey

Only Angels Have Rings

Pick Up the Ball, Barry. Pick It Up.

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Mr. Coffee? Mr. Freeze Dried?

DiMaggio or Williams: Pick One

Dead Man Wearing

Say Hey! The Results of Our Quiz

The Winners? Brian Calandra and Willie Mays.

Freak Wave

Summer's Bonanza Includes Unusually Nutty Celebrity news. Tabloid Heaven or Hell?

The First Annual Cryogenic Baseball Quiz

Figure Out These Freeze Frames of History and Win a Prize or Two

Tackling Himself

Jim Brown: Still Punishing After All These Years

Masters of Their Domain

Relax, Yankee Fans. Everything's in Good Hands.

The Numbers Game

New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

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Sexual Reference

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1999 Village Voice Sportswriters Poll Results

Hit or Myth

Examining the Legends of the World of Sports

Madison Queer Garden

Home Away From Home

A Yankee Fan's History of Fenway Park

The Mets Hit Parade

Olerud and Ordóñez: from the Sublime to the Ridiculous

Legend in the Gray Flannel Suit

Joseph Paul Dimaggio, 1914-1999