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Halberstam’s classic number 1 best-seller, concerning the enchanting summer when baseball’s fiercest competition grabbed the nation’s creativity, and transformed the activity foreverThe summer of 1949: It had been baseball’s Golden-Age and the entire year Joe DiMaggio’s Ny Yankees were secured in a soon-to-be classic struggle with Ted Williams’s Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant. As post-war America appeared for a moment, the best players in hockey history introduced their competition to the area, engaging the American community through one's heart-pounding closing times of the growing season. This story catches a period, integrating users of the people and their own families, supporters, broadcasters, football professionals, and sportswriters. Captivating in its mixture of effective depth and exciting story, The Summertime of ’49 is Pulitzer Prize–winner David Halberstam’s engrossing look at not just a sports competition, but at a period when America’s really identity was wrapped up in its precious nationwide game. This e-book features a long biography of David Halberstam.