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...even though he's heard all that before, Fadden doesn't take it very seriously. "I'm no magician," he laughs, "I'm the only self-confessed quack who works for Harvard." And then he laughs some more...
...route Fadden took to Dillon Field House was fairly simple: Born in Boston to Irish-immigrant parents in 1899, Fadden went to assorted schools in the area until he began studying physical education with Dr. Tommy Richards, the doctor for the Harvard football team. Richards brought Fadden to Cambridge...
...Fadden has treated everyone, the famous All-Americans like Chub (later Massachusetts Governor) Peabody, and football, baseball and hockey star Barry Wood (later a world-famous surgeon) to the less-heralded jocks, like those football-playing Kennedy brothers Jack, Bob and Ted. "I've seen from the ridiculous to the sublime athlete here," he says...
...renown coming from his association with Harvard athletes, Fadden probably is best known for the years he spent with the Red Sox, Ted Williams especially. The often-surly Splendid Splinter always held a special fondness for Fadden either because of the trainer's amazing ability to rehabilitate Williams' many injuries or because of Fadden's sometimes-brutal honesty...
...first story most people hear about Fadden, in fact, has to do with the aftermaths of William's famed expectorations at the Boston press corps. Williams reportedly said to Fadden, "Jack, everybody has had something to say to me about this little incident. But you haven't said a word about it. You seem to know a little bit about everything...