October 1964, David Halberstam
October 1964, David Halberstam
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October 1964

Author: David Halberstam

Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto

Unabridged: 13 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018


Synopsis

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

About The Author

DAVID HALBERSTAM was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, and War in a Time of Peace. He died in April 2007.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on October 03, 2023

October 1964 saw the playing of a World Series for the ages. History records that in that Series, the Saint Louis Cardinals defeated the New York Yankees, four games to three. Yet this particular World Series was important for reasons that stretched far beyond the world of baseball, as David Halbers......more

Goodreads review by Jay on April 30, 2017

A good read for baseball fans of any age. Covers the pivotal 1964 season of the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. Tells how both teams were put together and how they adjusted to age, injuries and racial tension. The baseball draft was started to combat the high bonus payments to players......more

David Halberstam is a great writer who has written about sports. He is not a sports writer. But you would not know that by reading October 1964 his analysis of the amazing 1964 Major League Baseball season that culminated in a memorable World Series matchup between the perennial power, New York Yank......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on July 10, 2022

As a child in the mid-sixties and after as a teenager through 1970's it was baffling to me how one league could dominate another league in the All-Star game. At one point the National league beat the American league like 19 out of 20 games. Statistically, it literally seemed impossible, especially s......more