on michael jordan, it just goes on and on, until you get to john updike on ted williams final red soxppearance. >> written on the weekend. >> rose: he said that, is that right? >> roger knows that story rogewas editor for yes and years. he went to that game by accident. as you said in the forward to a later edition he had an assignation with a lady who didn't turn up, and he went to -- the red sox were a terrible team then and he went to fenway park, bought a ticket and wawld walked in and noticed ted williams last game to be played at fenway park and he hits the last home run of his career and john went home and wrote the piece, but wrote a whole new style, writing about basall. >> rose: what was the new style? >> wrote about himself and to write about the, not to write in a sporting way but to write about what he thought about ted williams, to start with, and just to be himself as a great writer. and i think roger said, you know, one piece. roger made it his lifework or a huge part of his lifework to be a writer about baseball and a lot of it is the point of view, and the point of v