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Pick up any photograph of Ted Williams in 1943 and there’s a good chance you’ll see him seated on a footlocker beside Babe Ruth or perched on a chipped cement wall wearing a jersey stitched with dark blue Navy insignia. Many of those photographs were taken while he was training in Chapel Hill and they tell a story about the summer Ted changed.
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Anne R. Keene (The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II)