Jeff Passan
speaker
423 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2023
last heard 19 Aug
Jeff Passan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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is the most impressive of all.
The ideas
that he came up with and the ideals that he pursued are what's being taught.
Almost
across the entire sport by coaches these days.
And this is what Ted Williams was talking about, Tony.
Eighty years ago.
Just intuitive it.
out of what he felt and what he saw.
And that to me is how you know that Ted Williams's brain was different than everybody else's.
Uh you can uh go to YouTube, uh on ESPN's MLD channel and I think it'll probably be on T V today as well on ESPN too.
They usually are, but either way, uh online uh is the best place to do it and
It's you know, uh between Joey's commentary, we talked to Dave McCarthy who is
uh a security guard for Ted and runs the Ted Williams Foundation these days.
Uh it's just uh
It it's a lot of good conversation about somebody who was to me the most fascinating character in baseball history.
I know Babe Ruth, I know Jackie Robinson, there are plenty of others.
But Ted Williams, just in terms of the persona and the pursuit of knowledge, to me is is the apex of what we could see at a baseball player.
This, to me, Tony, was the most perfect encapsulation of modern baseball in a game played by the best in the world.
And it wasn't just the American League throwing 11 pitchers and combining for 15 strikeouts.
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