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PRAISE FOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LEIGH MONTVILLE <br> TED WILLIAMS<br> <br> Exceptional. Montville on Ted Williams is can't-miss, one of America's best sportswriters weighing in on one of the last century's most intriguing figures. A great read. <br> --Chicago Tribune <br> In Ted Williams, Leigh Montville reaches a threshold even the mighty Williams could never touch: perfection. The beauty of Montville's work is that it is not a baseball book, per se, so much as the life and times of an oft perplexing, always fascinating man. <br> --Newsday <br> Montville is refreshingly nonjudgmental about his superstar subject. First-rate biography. <br> --Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Crisp analogies and astute observations, combined with a fluid writing style, are Leigh Montville's strengths in this definitive biography of the Splendid Splinter. <br> --Tampa Tribune <br> THE BIG BAM<br> <br> [A] vivid, intimate account. Montville's unique voice ... makes old yarns seem new. <br> --Sports Illustrated<br> <br> Montville is a wonderful storyteller and Ruth's story, from Baltimore street urchin to international celebrity is indisputably amazing ... a fascinating tale, alternately happy and sad, and always artfully written. <br> --Chicago Tribune<br> <br> The best Ruth biography to date ... [Montville's] adroit organization of the historical material--enhanced by newly studied archival material and oral history transcripts, together with his flair for marshalling undisputed facts that are intertwined with plausible speculations--has produced an engaging, entertaining, and eminently readable biography. <br>-- Library Journal (starred review)

A great tale from one of our era's best storytellers. -- The New York Times In Montville's skillful hands, Montague's story becomes an epic drama about a potential hero undermined by his troubled past. -- The Boston Globe A well-paced ride. -- The Washington Post Hollywood missed this story, but the screen's loss is Montville's--and his readers'--gain. -- Sports Illustrated

A great tale from one of our era's best storytellers. <i>The New York Times</i> In Montville's skillful hands, Montague's story becomes an epic drama about a potential hero undermined by his troubled past. <i>The Boston Globe</i> A well-paced ride. <i>The Washington Post</i> Hollywood missed this story, but the screen's loss is Montville's and his readers' gain. <i>Sports Illustrated</i>

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LEIGH MONTVILLE is a former columnist at the Boston Globe and former senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Big Bam- The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams- The Biography of an American Hero, and At the Altar of Speed- The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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