Summer of '49

There’s just something about baseball. It can be slow and stretches of games can be absolutely boring but still, it draws me in. There is nothing more that I would rather do than, on a beautiful summer night, be with my friends, in the stands, watching a baseball game drinking a $13 beer. It has the......more

Very much enjoyable. Makes his brief biographical sketches of the people involved with telling the tale of it once a memorable season and a past era. Baseball before millionaires, night games, and widespread television. Well worth reading.......more

Just catching up on some books I read when I first joined Goodreads but never wrote a review for. "Summer of '49" was a big surprise for me because it was written by David Halberstam who received a Pulitzer Prize some years before for his book about the geniuses who got us into the Vietnam War in "......more

Author David Halberstam transports us back to a time when there were no divisions, only two eight-team leagues. With the end of World War II and the advent of television, baseball was poised to become a major part of Americana. Some of the greatest players ever were playing in 1949, among them Bosto......more

Goddamm, But Playing Baseball Is Fun, 9 Aug 2007 "Old-time baseball players and fans love to denigrate the modern ballplayer. "Baseball today is not what it should be," one old-timer once wrote. "The players do not try to learn all the fine points of the game as in the days of old, but simply try t......more