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Title: It's a rehash in a different cover
Review: Halberstam's Summer of '49 already told much of this and at less than 200 pages you can see he's mailing this one in using research he already did. I liked the stuff about the 80 y/o's driving down to see Ted but the rest is plainly found elsewhere and rewritten stuff from his other book. Personally, I don't get Halberstam at all. I find him just a bit too much. For writings about baseball's distant past I much prefer Creamer or Angell (even he is also good on up-to-date stuff) or Kahn.
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