This story includes some of the most common highlights of Ted Williams career in baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
This period in the history of baseball in the United States was particularly significant for that generation who came of age in the Depression, fought a World War, and then settled down in the 1950's to work and raise a family. Baseball was America's pastime. And it's heroes were American heroes. They touched many lives in deeply personal ways.
Have Meema tell this story. Pay attention to how it makes you feel, what you notice in the narration and the images, and what kinds of other thoughts or memories come to mind. Give your care companion time to reminisce on their own. If this doesn't engage them, you might try other baseball teams; believe it or not, everyone did not love the Red Sox, even back then. Or try other sports stories.
