![]() This assembly of oddballs produces one of the game's greatest pennant races, as the Red Sox sprint from behind to catch the Yankees at the end of September. Other players, too, flourish in capsule bio graphics: klutzy Yogi Berra Ellis Kinder, known to play while skunk-drunk Casey Stengel, baseball's greatest practical joker Johnny Pesky, Phil Rizutto, Bobby Doerr. God could come down from Heaven, and He couldn't throw it past me") and computerlike brain DiMaggio's painful shyness and doelike grace. ![]() Halberstam does a splendid job of catching the quirks of these two giants: Williams' overblown ego ("No one could throw a fastball past me. This is baseball just before its 1950's heyday: radio linked the nation, blacks entered the game, the legendary Yankee/Red Sox rivalry entered a new era as the extraordinary Joe DiMaggio neared retirement and Ted Williams ("the philosopher-king of hitting") stormed the record books. ![]() ![]() Standout account of the tight 1949 American League pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, by the author of The Reckoning, The Best and the Brightest, etc. ![]()
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