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    <body><![CDATA[Goddamm, But Playing Baseball Is Fun, 9 Aug 2007 <br/>                <br/><br/><br/>&quot;Old-time baseball players and fans love to denigrate the modern ballplayer. &quot;Baseball today is not what it should be,&quot; one old-timer once wrote. &quot;The players do not try to learn all the fine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41854019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Halberstam tells the story of the 1949 American League pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.  The outcome rested on the final game of the season when these two legendary rivals faced off in Yankee Stadium.  The topic has obvious appeal for fans of the game (particularly t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61412174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I played baseball for most of my childhood. The innocence of childhood joy stands starkly against the selfish, indulgent business of pro baseball (and all pro sports) today. However, back in 1949, even in what became &quot;Major League Baseball&quot;, there was still a glimmer of that joy, a degree ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53952675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2nd best baseball book ever written. But as an historian as well as a baseball fan, Halbertsam effortlessly portrays America during one of its best years ever, as things began to get rolling after World War II. It was a more innocent, optimistic, confident time, perfect for the baseball dramas that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52252579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was somewhat of a slow read.  I've written this in some of my other reviews, but I hardly have time to read, what with a young child and a full time job.  But when a book resonates with me, I'll make time to get through it as fast as possible.  Perhaps a sign of this book's lack of resonation, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23871289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as I expected it to be but I still enjoyed it.  This book was very much written like Halberstam's &quot;Teammates&quot; in that it gave a lot of background on the key players.  I was expecting it to be more about the season, the actual pennant race and the way it gripped the nation and l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23300138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually stick to fiction, but a co-worker (and fellow Yankees fan) gave me a copy of this book and I decided to give it a read, and I was very pleasantly surprised.<br/><br/>Even though &quot;Summer of '49&quot; is way before my time, I appreciated it on a number of levels.  I learned a lot abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7837995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Halberstam really is (was) the great American sports writer. I'm no Yankees fan, but this is a compelling look at that team (and the closely matched Red Sox) in the title season. It's a real narrative more engaging than most works of fiction, with carefully described characters (also real). If you d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57307619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A well written chronicle of the mishaps, endurance and alcoholism of the 1949 Major League Baseball series. It boils down to the Red Sox versus the Yankees, and lest we forget, the Red Sox were the billionaire boys club back then.<br/><br/>Sometimes the text rambles a bit, but it's understandable ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48673224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was like candy for a baseball fan! Halberstam's perspective on the teams and their players was so intimate (his allegiances are interestingly explained in the author's note), and the personal perspectives of fans who were only children at the time deepened the story. He also chose to pursue the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29279276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Halberstam wrote great books about baseball. This is the first one of his I ever read, and even though it's about the yankees (whom I despise) and the Red Sox (who are becoming increasingly annoying) it's still a great read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like baseball at all, or the interwar era, read this amazing book by an exceptional historian.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far the most reserached and detailed sports book I've ever read.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Baseball book on the 1949 season.]]></body>
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