Join us for a discussion of “The Teammates,” the story of four Red Sox — Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky.

In October 2001, Dom Dimaggio and Johnny Pesky begin a 1,300-mile trip to visit their beloved teammate Ted Williams, knowing that he is dying. The fourth member of this close-knit group, Bobby Doerr, is unable to make the trip because he’s tending to his wife who has just suffered her second stroke.

This is the beginning of Halberstam’s “The Teammates,” a profoundly human story of four great ballplayers who have made the passage from sports icons — then they were young and seemingly indestructible — to men dealing with the vulnerabilities of growing older. At the core of the book is the friendship of these four very different but extraordinary men, who stayed close to each other for more than 60 years.

First among them was Ted Williams, not only a dominating player but a dominating personality as well. Johnny Pesky joined the Red Sox and soon became one of the league’s toughest hitters and something of a little brother to Williams.

Dom DiMaggio, the center fielder, was an athlete carried as much by his remarkable intelligence as by his natural talent. Small and bespeckled, he grew up partially in the shadow of his older brother, but would end up a seven-time American League All-Star.

And then htere was future Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr, a professional ballplayer at sixteen, who right from the start displayed a natural grace and maturity that made him the perfect buddy for the tempermental Williams.

Join the discussion on the Rocky Mountain SABR website or on the chapter’s Facebook page. And you can meet for a face-to-face discussion on February 25 — breakfast at Village Inn, Colorado Blvd. and Mexico Avenue, just north of Interstate 25.