In September 1960, John Updike sat in the Fenway Park stands and watched Ted Williams take his final at-bat. He drove a fastball 440 feet over the right-centerfield wall, rounded the bases head down and disciplined, and ran straight into the dugout. The crowd begged him to come out, tip his cap, take their adulation. He didn’t. The opposing pitcher waited on the mound, certain Williams would relent. Most players would have. Williams waved him of…