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October 1964 by david halberstam5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It covered it all with societal and economic overlays, and blended it altogether, while all the time never leaving sight of the fact this was book about sports which sports fans would appreciate.as would non-sports fans. It studied the main characters in depth, and not just in anecdote form. This book covered the events leading up to the main event. It was well past half way in reading this before I stopped thinking about how it had much more in common with the award-winning book about the Civil War battle at Antietam, Landscape Turned Red, then with the author's own book about the 1949 baseball championship. ![]() This book is in the finest tradition of enlightening, engrossing, historical reporting, albeit of sports. That book was aimed at zealot fans who love anecdote after anecdote about ball players they already know a lot about. It's easily the best sports-related book I've ever read, and that includes comparison to another sports-related book by the same author. ![]()
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