Harper Perennial Modern Classics Summer of '49, (Paperback)

from bogopea

Halberstam, though a Red Sox fan, wrote a wonderful story of the fight for supremacy between Sox and Yankees, albeit in 1949. But the rivalry preceded that year and certainly continued afterwards. As a Sox fan, I thoroughly enjoyed the history of the story which I just finished in 2012.

from nmele

What I most appreciated about this Halberstam baseball book was his sense of the ends and beginnings of different eras in the evolution of the game: racial integration, the dawn of televised games, the last seasons of Joe DiMaggio's career and the beginning of the years of Yankee dominance throug...

from burnit99

David Halberstam is one of the best baseball writers, bringing luminosity and color to the players and games of the past. This is one of his classics, mainly about the 1949 pennant race between the Yankees and the Red Sox, although there is a short bit about the prior season, and the 1949 World S...

from Schmerguls

4983. Summer of '49, by David Halberstam (read 15 Dec 2012) This book was published in 1989 and is a history of the 1949 American League pennant race, won on the last day of the season by the Yankees. There is much discussion of the Yankee and Red Sox players of that year, particularly of Joe DiM...

from drebbles

"Summer of `49" focuses on the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees as they fought for first place during the Summer of 1949. This was before the days of the wild card and first place meant a trip to the playoffs while second place meant a trip home. The two teams fought for fi...