{"id":622,"date":"2010-09-27T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=622"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:33:52","slug":"ny-times-writer-notes-50th-anniversary-of-kids-adieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/09\/27\/ny-times-writer-notes-50th-anniversary-of-kids-adieu\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times writer notes 50th anniversary of Kid&#8217;s Adieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/09\/y-jp-williams-articleinline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-623\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/09\/y-jp-williams-articleinline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a>In a <em>New York Times<\/em> story posted September 25, Charles McGrath observed the 50th anniversary of Ted William&#8217;s last game, &#8220;in which, with an impeccable sense of occasion, he hit a home run, a miraculous line drive to deep right center, in his final at-bat.&#8221; McGrath, who knew Updike well, noted that among the fans was &#8220;28-year-old John Updike, who had actually scheduled an adulterous assignation that day. But when he reached the woman&#8217;s apartment, on Beacon Hill, he found that he had been stood up: no one was home. &#8216;So I went, as promised, to the game,&#8217; he wrote years later, &#8216;and my virtue was rewarded.'&#8221; Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/26\/sports\/baseball\/26williams.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books\">link<\/a> to the full story, in which McGrath also pays tribute to Updike&#8217;s &#8220;Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu&#8221; as &#8220;the most celebrated baseball essay ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a New York Times story posted September 25, Charles McGrath observed the 50th anniversary of Ted William&#8217;s last game, &#8220;in which, with an impeccable sense of occasion, he hit a home run, a miraculous line drive to deep right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/09\/27\/ny-times-writer-notes-50th-anniversary-of-kids-adieu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}