![]() ![]() The Cardinals, by contrast, were one of the best-integrated teams in baseball. ![]() With fading superstars such as Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Whitey Ford, the Yankees stood for the established order, both symbolically, in the minds of baseball fans, and in reality, in their dependence on power over speed and in management's reluctance to sign black players. For the Yankees, it was the last hurrah of their near-total baseball dominance that began in 1949 Halberstam contends that they were emblematic of the era coming to an end. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees, reflected opposing currents in a deeply conflicted American society. Halberstam's premise is that vast changes had occurred in American society in the 15 years that divided those two baseball seasons, and the teams that played in the 1964 World Series, the St. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Halberstam (The Fifties, 1993, etc.) looks at America's baseball diamonds in this volume, a bookend to his earlier Summer of '49 (1989). The riveting story of how two very different baseball teams, reflective of the times in America, got to the 1964 World Series. ![]()
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