Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game; Plus, Remembering the Composer of “Annie”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. A co production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. This year is the Centennial of the New Yorker, and our staff writers and other friends of the magazine
Have been pulling out some classics from the long history of the New Yorkers. It's a series we call takes. And you can find them all gathered at New Yorker.com slash. Takes New Yorker.com Slash takes. Louisa Thomas is our sports correspondent and she naturally
gravitated to a piece about baseball. A piece with a title that is comprehensible only if you're a baseball nut. Or a reader of Variety Magazine. And the title is Hub Fans Bid Kid Ado. The kid in question, of course, was Ted Williams.
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