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The stories were telling
By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Staff, 7/16/2002
''I feel that everyone is here for him and when I feel that, I wish he could be here for them,'' she said. ''But it's heartwarming to have them all around. It kind of keeps him alive and immortalizes him. ''The nicest thing was having people come up to me and tell me their experiences, sometimes from when they first met Daddy. Nomar [Garciaparra] was telling me about the first time Daddy called him. He was a rookie and Daddy called him at 11 o'clock. And he was in a room with a bunch of his buddies and he was like, `Don't answer the phone at 11 o'clock.' And then the phone rang and Nomar answered and he was like, `It's him, it's him!' and they were all running around the room. And Nomar said right away Dad started drilling him about hitting. ''Those are the stories I love to hear. A lot of times people start to tell me a story about Dad and they are like, `You probably don't want to hear this,' or `You probably think this is boring,' but it's not. I hear a side of my dad that is so nice ... [one] I wish I saw more of. But when I hear the stories coming from other people, it's like, it's OK. That's who he is.''
This story ran on page F6 of the Boston Globe on 7/16/2002.
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n February of 2001, one month after her father's 9 1/2-hour heart surgery, Claudia Williams represented her family at the Ted Williams Museum Hitters Hall of Fame induction ceremony.