David Halberstam is the author of this book, and he is my favorite author. One of the things I like about him is that in each chapter he writes about one player in depth, and writes about there road to where they are now. When he does this, you really get a feel for the players, but you also read about exciting seasons for both teams. Once you get to the World Series, he describes each game in-depth, but I like when he does this because it's not just a boring game in the dog days of summer, but the World Series, when games are always exciting. This series had everything, including Mickey Mantle's walk off home run, to Bob Gibsons incredibly play on the mound.
If I were to read a baseball book written by Halberstam, were he talks more about the players, or a book were it's more about the whole team, like Jeff Pearlmans great book The Bad Guys Won, I would probably read a Halberstam style book. But if there was a team as insane as the Mets in The Bad Guys One, I would read one about the entire team.
I really like David Halberstam as well, and I'm a big fan of John Feinstein's non-fiction about sports (The Last Amateurs for example). The last Halbertam I read was about the Civil Rights Movement. I will have to add this to my To Be Read pile.
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