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Summer of '49 Mass market paperbound - 1997

by David Halberstam

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Chronicles the 1949 pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, profiling the players, owners, and fans as major league baseball was poised on the brink of major changes.

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"Dazzling...A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a 'simpler America' " --New York Times Book Review

David Halberstam's classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royal between Joe DiMaggio's Yankees and Ted Williams's Red Sox for the hearts of a nation.

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 forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.

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In the years immediately following World War II, professional baseball mesmerized the American people as it never had before and never would again.

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  • Title Summer of '49
  • Author David Halberstam
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date February 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780380710751 / 0380710757
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.88 x 4.19 x 0.88 in (17.48 x 10.64 x 2.24 cm)
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

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