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October 1964 by david halberstam
October 1964 by david halberstam











october 1964 by david halberstam october 1964 by david halberstam

Louis Cardinals were a young tough team on the ascent, featuring talented black players — Bob Gibson, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and Bill White — who were changing the very nature of the game with their unprecedented speed and power. Though the Yankees boasted such great names as Mantle, Maris, and Ford, theirs was an aging team: Mantle, hobbled by injuries, was facing his last hurrah in post-season play. The Yankees, like most American League teams, reflected the status quo and, in contrast to the National League teams, had been slow to sign the new great black players (indeed, for a time, their best scouts were ordered not to sign them). Like the previous book, it is both sports and history, and it is a fascinating account of an electrifying baseball championship against the background of profound social change.

october 1964 by david halberstam

October 1964 is Halberstam's exciting new book about baseball — this time about the last season of that Yankee dynasty. Here also was the story of the Yankees winning the first of their pennants under Casey Stengel before going on to become baseball's greatest dynasty. The players, almost all white, had been raised in harsh circumstances, the games were played in the afternoon on grass and were broadcast on radio, the teams traveled by train, and the owners had dictatorial power over the players. It was a compelling portrait of baseball in an America as yet unchanged by affluence, technology, and social progress. In 1989 David Halberstam published Summer of '49, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller.













October 1964 by david halberstam