![]() ![]() Though the Yankees boasted such great names as Mantle, Maris, and Ford, theirs was an aging team: Mantle, hobbled by injuries, was facing his last hurrah in post-season play. The Yankees, like most American League teams, reflected the status quo and, in contrast to the National League teams, had been slow to sign the new great black players (indeed, for a time, their best scouts were ordered not to sign them). Like the previous book, it is both sports and history, and it is a fascinating account of an electrifying baseball championship against the background of profound social change. October 1964 is Halberstam's exciting new book about baseball - this time about the last season of that Yankee dynasty. October 1964 / David Halberstam Book Bib ID ![]()
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