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With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat. The year was 1949, and a war-weary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball... read more

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In the years immediately following World War II, professional baseball mesmerized the American people as it never had before and never would again.

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  1. David Halberstam (Author)
 

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