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Summer of '49

By David Halberstam

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780380710751

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The year was 1949, and a war-wearied nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were Continue

The year was 1949, and a war-wearied nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball's American League and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash, headstrong hitting phenomenon named Ted Williams led their respective teams in a classic pennant duel of almost mythic proportions--one that would be decided in an explosive head-to-head confrontation on the last day of the season...

With incredible skill, passion and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam returns us to that miraculous summer... and to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost for gotten America rested on the crack of a bat.

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  • Summer of '49 By David Halberstam and William Morrow

    In the summer of 1949. David Halberstam was 15, moving uncertainly into adolescence and looking longingly back over his shoulder at boyhood. America was struggling, too—one generation still emotionally chastened by the Depression, the other increasin ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • Outside Baseball

    It could be a coincidence, but as each of our major wars winds down we seem to become more and more mesmerized by baseball, and the cold war so far has proved no exception. To a nervous system set on high, peace can be an awful anticlimax; suddenly a ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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