Summer of '49

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

David Halberstam's classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royal between Joe DiMaggio's Yankees and Ted Williams's Red Sox for the hearts of a nation.

The year was 1949, and a war-wearied nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. 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.

With incredible skill, passion and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam returns us to that miraculous summer—and to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.

©1989 David Halberstam (P)2022 Tantor

Somehow even Better than advertised

Masterfully Halberstam plays his instrument, language, much the way a legendary Composer might wield a symphony.

Great Rivalry Book

If your a fan of baseball you will love this book this book takes you back to the golden age of baseball

Halberstam’s writing is brilliant

Beautifully written and clearly well researched, Summer of 49 is a must for any baseball fan. The ball players, from Ted Williams to Joe DiMaggio are larger the life.

The stories

A great listen fur a baseball fan I say. Based on his I went through so fast

Joe D’mahggio??

The narrator routinely miss-pronounces the names of baseball legends but, moreover does a great job with this gem, by a true lover of the game.