"The Splendid Splinter", a story.

If you're a baseball fan, then you know part of the story.

When I was eleven or twelve I had a friend named Malcom.  I didn't like Malcom, he was a few months older than me, taller, better looking and a whole lot smarter.  But we shared a love of baseball and his family used to take us down to Fenway Park in Boston to watch the Sox play.  Still have a visor and program.




My favorite player and almost everyone else's was Ted Williams, tall and slim and tagged The Splendid Splinter. A heck of a hitter, eyesight like nobody else's that served him well in Korea flying Navy Panthers (he was a Marine) taking time off from baseball to serve his country.  Socially Ted was a royal PITA but could he ever hit a baseball and I watched him over time launch several home runs over Fenway's "Green Monster" and into right field.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Ho551aHUk

Which brings me to this:

Mark had given me a picture of his Mustang convertible taken at Bronco stadium in Denver.  Somehow, and I have no idea how, the picture got framed in front of a picture of Ted at bat in Fenway.  I put it along with several other pictures in the garage.



A couple of months ago on a very windy day it got blown off it's resting place and shattered the glass.  I removed the broken glass and gave the framed picture back to Mark.  He took it apart and discovered the Ted Williams picture with an embossed seal on the front and a stamp on the back.  Researching on-line he found one like it on ebay for $76,00.

I just got through reframing it.