Summer of '49
	The classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize– winning author 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 year was 1949, and a war-weary 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. About the Author David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has chronicled the social, political, and athletic life of America in such bestselling books as The Education of a Coach, The Fifties, The Best and the Brightest, and The Amateurs.