![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he couldn't very well title a baseball book simply "1964." Including the month of the World Series imparted the needed baseball flavor, especially with the dust-jacket art showing Mickey Mantle at bat against Bob Gibson.īut still, why 1964? Casual baseball fans may remember that year as the season of the Philadelphia Phillies' great collapse, when the team managed by Gene Mauch blew the National League pennant after being 6 1/2 games ahead with only 12 games left in the season. Why has David Halberstam picked "October 1964" as the title for his latest baseball book, his previous one having been the best-selling "Summer of '49"? Of course his new book is not about just October it covers the entire 1964 season, along with its background. ![]()
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