--- title: "4 Ben Bradlee Jr Quotes - Famous Biographer" description: "American journalist... | Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 2..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_baseball_somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-de_841557.jpg" --- # Ben Bradlee Jr (1948) Biographer **4** quotes in **13** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Ben Bradlee Jr is a biographer. ## Quick Facts About Ben Bradlee Jr Born August 7, 1948 Profession Biographer ## About Ben Bradlee Jr American journalist... \| Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into sexual abuse by priests in the Boston archdiocese, and is the author of a compre ## Quotes by Ben Bradlee Jr > [“Somewhat typical for Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the three World…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-bradlee-jr/somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-decision-to-give-away-the-six/) [Ben Bradlee Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-bradlee-jr/) [Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_baseball_somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-de_841557.jpg) > [“It wasn’t until 1959 that the Red Sox finally joined the rest of the major leagues and brought up a black player…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-bradlee-jr/it-wasn-t-until-1959-that-the-red-sox-finally-joined-the-rest-of-the/) [Ben Bradlee Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-bradlee-jr/) [Babe ruth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/babe-ruth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_red-sox_it-wasn-t-until-1959-that-the-red-sox-fi_984282.jpg) > [“Waiting for the Cardinals-Dodgers winner, the Red Sox decided to try to keep their edge by playing an exhibition series at Fenway…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-bradlee-jr/waiting-for-the-cardinals-dodgers-winner-the-red-sox-decided-to-try/) [Ben Bradlee Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-bradlee-jr/) [Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_fenway-park_waiting-for-the-cardinals-dodgers-winner_1509636.jpg) > [“were good friends. They’d maintained their friendship after Ted was out of the game. Both of them were avid fishermen, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-bradlee-jr/were-good-friends-they-d-maintained-their-friendship-after-ted-was/) [Ben Bradlee Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-bradlee-jr/) [Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_baseball_were-good-friends-they-d-maintained-thei_1875901.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-bradlee-jr/#itemlist", "name": "Ben Bradlee Jr Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Somewhat typical for Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the three World Series games at Fenway Park: he had his wife go to Kenmore Square before the games and give the tickets to the first six GIs she saw.49 He felt no need to tell the press about the token of appreciation for the fans.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ben Bradlee Jr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-bradlee-jr/somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-decision-to-give-away-the-six/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_baseball_somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-de_841557.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_baseball_somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-de_841557.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/ben-bradlee-jr-70344_baseball_somewhat-typical-for-williams-was-his-de_841557.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Somewhat typical for Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the…” — Ben Bradlee Jr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It wasn’t until 1959 that the Red Sox finally joined the rest of the major leagues and brought up a black player from the minors to play in Boston. 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They’d maintained their friendship after Ted was out of the game. Both of them were avid fishermen, but they both had different ideas about it. They would hassle on technique, and neither would give in to the other.” Wallace Lawrimore vividly remembered the April 6, 1939, game in Florence between the Red Sox and the Reds. “Daddy carried two carloads of family to the game. We all went up to the dugout to tell Cronin we wanted some passes to get in. I got a program from that day, with all the players’ autographs.” The one ball field Florence had was deemed unsuitable for a major-league game because the fences were too short, so it was decided to build a field from scratch at the local fairgrounds. They laid down a coating of dirt for the infield and put up some circus-style bleachers for the 2,285 spectators who showed up, but when it came time for the game, gale-force winds blowing out toward left field drove the dirt everywhere, and conditions made the game virtually unplayable. 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