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Summer of '49
by David Halberstam
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780060007812 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
David Halberstam's New York Timesbestselling classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royale between Joe DiMaggio's Yankees and Ted Williams's Red Sox for the heart of a nation.
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam returns us to the miraculous summer of '49 ... and to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.
Review:
"It is a study of all the elements and personalities that influenced baseball that year and beyond. Halberstam brings them together in such an enjoyable, interesting, and informative manner that a reader needn't be a baseball fan to appreciate the book." Library Journal
Review:
"Dazzling...heart-stopping...altogether engrossing....A celebration of a vanished heroic age." The New York Times Book Review
Review:
"The national pastime at its most innocent, heroic best....David Halberstam brings the era vividly to life." Washington Post Book World
Review:
"In a league by itself....A superb re-creation of a legendary summer of baseball — and of a time and a place that once was America." Detroit News
Review:
"A gorgeous story with personalities and anecdotes jam-packing every page." Newsweek
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"A very special book....Even if you're not a baseball fan, this is an exciting story." Wall Street Journal
Synopsis:
A magnificent journey through the 1949 pennant race in which the Red Sox and the Yankees battled down to a one-game season.
Synopsis:
David Halberstam's "New York Times" bestselling classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royale between Joe DiMaggio's Yankees and Ted Williams's Red Sox for the heart of a nation.
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam returns us to the miraculous summer of '49 ... and to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060007812
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author:
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Baseball - History
- Subject:
- Baseball - General
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- New york yankees (baseball team)
- Copyright:
- 2002
- Edition Description:
- 1st Perennial Classics ed.
- Series:
- Perennial Classics
- Series Volume:
- no. 2001-2837
- Publication Date:
- March 19, 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 8.15x5.30x.90 in. .68 lbs.
