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List Price: $15.95Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357646
EAN: 9780449983676
ISBN: 0449983676
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 11, 1995
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 11, 1995
Sales Rank: 44604
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
"October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals. It should be a hit with younger students of the game, who'll eat up the vivid portrayals of legends like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam's new book should be a hit with anyone interested in understanding the important interplay between sports and society."
--The Boston Globe
"Compelling...1964 is a chronicle of the end of a great dynasty and of a game, like the country, on the cusp of enormous change."
--Newsweek
"Halberstam's latest gives us the feeling of actually being there--in another time, in the locker rooms and in the minds of baseball legends. His time and effort researching the book result in a fluency with his topic and a fluidity of writing that make the reading almost effortless....Absorbing."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Wonderful...Memorable...Halberstam describes the final game of the 1964 series accurately and so dramatically, I almost thought I had forgotten the ending."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Superb reporting...Incisive analysis...You know from the start that Halberstam is going to focus on a large human canvas...One of the many joys of this book is the humanity with which Halberstam explores the characters as well as the talents of the players, coaches and managers. These are not demigods of summer but flawed, believable human beings who on occasion can rise to peaks of heroism."
--Chicago Sun-Times
Amazon.com Review:
Heroes have a habit of growing larger over time, as do the arenas in which they excelled. The 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals was coated in myth from the get-go. The Yankees represented the establishment: white, powerful, and seemingly invincible. The victorious Cards, on the other hand, were baseball's rebellious future: angry and defiant, black, and challenging. Their seven-game barnburner, played out against a backdrop of an America emerging from the Kennedy assassination, escalating the war in Vietnam, and struggling with civil rights, marked a turning point--neither the nation, nor baseball, would ever be quite so innocent again. Halberstam, one of the great reporters of the '60s, looks back in this marvelous and spirited elegy to the era, the game, and players such as Mantle, Maris, Ford, Gibson, Brock, and Flood with a clear eye in search of the truth that time has blurred into legend. His confident prose, diligent reporting, and deft analysis make it clear how much more interesting--and forceful--the truth can be.
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Rating:  -
One of the saddest aspects of David Halberstam's passing in 2007 is that we will no longer have the joy and privilege of reading his wonderful works on sports, especially baseball. October 1964 ranks only behind his work on the 1949 baseball season as a seminal work on the art and passion of baseball. In each case he chose the New York Yankees and a team with die hard loyal fans (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals) and portrayed not only how the respective pennant races went that season but what ... Read More
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Halberstam delivers another masterpiece book on baseball, a follow up to his other must read "Summer of '49". Ostensibly, this story is about a classic 1964 World Series between the Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. However, Halberstam scope if far broader than just a classic NL pennant race and a memorable 7 game World Series. For this WS was a watershed moment in baseball history. While not on the level as Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier 17 years earlier, it stands just a few rungs ... Read More
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Because it's not all about sports. The baseball is almost incidental other than creating a far more interesting context for the social history and commentary. And that's a good thing because Halberstam pretty much fails in each of his books to really create the "magic" of the sports subjects he chronicles. If I compare Halberstam to another high intellect sports fan of note, George Will, I perceive that Will does a better job of writing in an intellectual and informative manner while also conveying ... Read More
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This is a very solid follow up to David Halberstram's previous baseball history "The Summer of '49." Unlike that bestselling book which reviewed the most exciting of the pennant race between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox during the Forties, "October, 1964" chronicles the changing of the guard. 1964 was the final season of the postwar New York dynasty. As Halberstram indicates, the season was a watershed year for baseball. Old alignments faded away and new constellations began to sparkle and ... Read More
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Halberstam brilliantly sets the state for the 1964 World Series. He describes in detail each key players history and how they came to be a part of each team respectively. At the same time, he portrays how attitudes towards race in baseball, and in America in general, were changing and how it was changing the game. Absolutely wonderful.
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