Summer of '49 by David Halberstam - 1996

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. Very Good. The book is tight and square with clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. Bound in red leather with 22 kt embellishments, hubbed spines, gilded page edges, and sewn-in satin bookmark. Small scratches to gold gilt on top and bottom fore-edges but gilt intact. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam re-creates one of baseball's greatest rivalries--the 1949 Yankees vs. Red Sox.

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.