With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.
The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball\'s American League, and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash, headstrong hitting phenomenon named Ted Williams led their respective teams in a classic pennant duel of almost mythic proportions--one that would be decided in an explosive head-to-head confrontation on the last day of the season..
It was a Summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition.
The year was 1949, and a war-weary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes.
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat
