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Review title: Another Halberstam home run...
Product review: Yes, this is another lovely baseball book from David Halberstam. While not as sweeping and poetic as 'Summer of 49', it is more...oh I don't know..."hard-boiled"?Maybe baseball was different too...and he's reflecting that in his book. Baseball was more serious.Take players like Maris and Mantle, or Gibson and Brock. These aging superstars and noble black ballplayers...their stories aren't so much whimsical (like in 1949) as seriocomic. The hardships Gibson and Brock went through can only be imagined by today's players. Mantle's brittle knees almost have their own personality here.Yet the power of a Gibson pitch or a Mantle home run comes across perfectly in Halberstam's prose.Also, he proves the theory that there is no other sport contest more inherently dramatic (in a literary sense) than a classic pennant race.This is a pleasure to read.
