· What I’m Reading: “October ” by David Halberstam. With October , David Halberstam put his considerable skills to good use in telling the story of the baseball season and the seven-game World Series between the Cardinals and Yankees. Halberstam, who unfortunately passed away in , won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in and earned his fame . The book's title - 'October ' - is in a way misleading, as it is more about how the teams *got* to the '64 World Series as opposed to the Series itself. In fact, Halberstam doesn't begin his coverage of the Series until page , and then it's seven quick chapters (one per game) and a fine epilogue to the completion at page Regardless, '64' is an outstanding piece of work.5/5(4). “October ” is a revealing, riveting and highly recommended look at the last hurrah of the Mickey Mantle-led Yankees and the rise of the new wave Cardinals. The author could have benefitted from “Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman” by Lee Lowenfish, which gives an enlightening view of Jimmy Powers’ lack of enlightenment, and its relationship to the “El Cheapo” epithet/5().
October () Author Info: David Halberstam. 04/10/ David Halberstam is undoubtedly one of the great journalists of the past few decades. As the New York Times correspondent in Vietnam in the early 60's, he was one of the most influential media voices on the War and The Best and the Brightest was one of the first really important. "OCTOBER " by David Halberstam () Sometimes the best sports books are not really sports books, as is the case with David Halberstam's brilliant "October ", which tells the story of a changing America through the microcosm of two very different baseball teams. David Halberstam's October , a classic baseball book, catapults me back to the first season that I was fully immersed in the game, the true starting point of my baseball www.doorway.rustam's writing is smooth and natural, a joy to read. The title suggest this to be a chronicle of the Yankees-Cardinals World Series, but it is much more a chronicle of the teams' seasons with.
In the novel October written by David Halberstam tells the story of the game between the Yankees and the Cardinals. The story is told by a narrator who is all- knowing when telling the story. In the book Halberstam does not only tell the story of the fall of the Yankees but also the fall of the sixties. The book's title - 'October ' - is in a way misleading, as it is more about how the teams *got* to the '64 World Series as opposed to the Series itself. In fact, Halberstam doesn't begin his coverage of the Series until page , and then it's seven quick chapters (one per game) and a fine epilogue to the completion at page Regardless, '64' is an outstanding piece of work. “October ” is a revealing, riveting and highly recommended look at the last hurrah of the Mickey Mantle-led Yankees and the rise of the new wave Cardinals. The author could have benefitted from “Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman” by Lee Lowenfish, which gives an enlightening view of Jimmy Powers’ lack of enlightenment, and its relationship to the “El Cheapo” epithet.
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