"Don Brown, a former counsellor at the 'Ted Williams Baseball Camp', recalls that one kid who wasn’t awestruck by Ted Williams was Joe Coleman, a local high school pitching phenom who would go on to pitch in the major leagues. Joe Coleman was also the son of the Philadelphia Athletics pitcher of the same name who had been Ted’s roommate in 1942 at Amherst College, Williams’s first stop during World War II. "Joe Coleman was pitching and striking everyone in camp out. Ted Williams came over to the field in his street clothes to watch and Joe Coleman was actually taunting him: ‘You couldn’t hit me, old man!’ Ted never said a word. Williams just grabbed a bat, went up to the plate and hit the next four pitches out, into the oak trees four hundred feet away, then put the bat down and walked out. Never said a word. Ted Williams was about five years out of the game. In street clothes." "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams". Ben Bradlee Jr. The Ted Williams Camp opened in 1958 and closed in 1986, having instructed thousands of boys from age 7 through their teens, with frequent appearances by the 'Splendid Splinter'.