Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    October 1964
    Unavailable
    October 1964
    Unavailable
    October 1964
    Audiobook13 hours

    October 1964

    Written by David Halberstam

    Narrated by Angelo Di Loreto

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Read the ebook instead

    About this audiobook

    The New York Times bestseller.

    "October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals. It should be a hit with younger students of the game, who'll eat up the vivid portrayals of legends like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam's new book should be a hit with anyone interested in understanding the important interplay between sports and society."
    —The Boston Globe

    "Compelling...1964 is a chronicle of the end of a great dynasty and of a game, like the country, on the cusp of enormous change."
    —Newsweek

    "Halberstam's latest gives us the feeling of actually being there—in another time, in the locker rooms and in the minds of baseball legends. His time and effort researching the book result in a fluency with his topic and a fluidity of writing that make the reading almost effortless....Absorbing."
    —San Francisco Chronicle

    "Wonderful...Memorable...Halberstam describes the final game of the 1964 series accurately and so dramatically, I almost thought I had forgotten the ending."
    —The Washington Post Book World

    "Superb reporting...Incisive analysis...You know from the start that Halberstam is going to focus on a large human canvas...One of the many joys of this book is the humanity with which Halberstam explores the characters as well as the talents of the players, coaches and managers. These are not demigods of summer but flawed, believable human beings who on occasion can rise to peaks of heroism."
    —Chicago Sun-Times

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9780525643623
    Author

    David Halberstam

    David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.

    More audiobooks from David Halberstam

    Related to October 1964

    Related audiobooks

    United States History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      9 Sports Books That Offer Something For Every Fan

      Jan 31, 2019

      Whether an exhaustive new profile of Babe Ruth, the reflections of basketball great Bob Cousy, or a retrospective of the heyday of women’s bike racing, there’s plenty to choose from in this grab bag of books.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Best of 2019 BASEBALL BOOKS

      Nov 22, 2019

      Best of 2019 BASEBALL BOOKS
      10 min read

    • Article

      Wisconsin Commemorative Half Dollar Reimagined

      Oct 29, 2021

      Editor’s Note: For nearly 60 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was onc

      4 min read

    • Article

      Back In The Day

      Mar 20, 2019

      Back In The Day
      4 min read

    • Article

      Opening India's Innings

      Jun 28, 2019

      The famous Scottish football manager Bill Shankly once recounted this conversation: "Someone said to me 'To you, football is a matter of life and death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that.'" Many subcontinental cricket fans would happ

      2 min read

    • Article

      Best Baseball Books Of 2023

      Nov 18, 2023

      (EDITOR’S NOTE: Not listed is the author’s latest, Baseball’s Memorable Misses: an Unabashed Look at the Game’s Craziest Zeroes, a Sports Publishing book.) Just because the New York Yankees haven’t been to the World Series since 2009 doesn’t mean t

      14 min read

    • Article

      Sportswriting: A 2,000-Year History

      Jan 22, 2018

      Sportswriting didn’t start with early 20th-century newspaper columnists talking fast and wearing hats with the word “press” written on the brim. The origins of the genre go way, way back past the historical warning track— hunting stories in pictorial

      12 min read

    • Article

      Sports Book Roundup: Cubs Books In Time For Opening Day And More

      Mar 28, 2018

      "Try Not to Suck" by Bill Chastain and Jesse Rogers; Triumph (304 pages, $25.95) Cubs fans hope the Joe Maddon story isn't finished just yet. They would like to see him add a couple more World Series titles to his tale. However, this new biography sh

      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘Coins’ Magazine Took Us There

      Apr 21, 2023

      A professor of mine, whose classes were as much about how to write effectively as they were about U.S. history, used to say: “The reader will go where you want, but you have to take him there.” Having recently heard from Maggie Pahl, numismatics edit

      3 min read

    • Article

      Review Of A Guide Book Of Morgan Dollars, 6th Edition

      May 31, 2019

      At the end of my last column, I mentioned that you might decide to specialize in one or more series of U.S. coins, and, if so, you would want to add relevant books to your numismatic library. The book I’ll review in this column would be appropriate i

      4 min read

    • Article

      Sacrifice Play

      Oct 19, 2020

      Sacrifice Play
      6 min read

    • Article

      Give The Gift Of Baseball

      Nov 19, 2022

      Leo Durocher used to devour two books a week. Moe Berg was also a voracious reader. And millions of adult baseball fans collect books the way they collected baseball cards as a kid. A great offseason hobby, it’s also a great way to spread holiday c

      11 min read

    • Article

      Lit Mag Changes Exploitative Name

      Oct 12, 2022

      After more than sixty years in circulation, the literary journal Crazyhorse is poised to change its name to swamp pink, after a lily species that grows in the Carolinas. The Fall 2022 issue of the journal, published by the College of Charleston in So

      3 min read

    • Article

      Answered Prayers

      Nov 15, 2023

      Riverrun, 352pp, £25 ‘No better book about England's victory in the football World Cup of 1966 and what followed it has ever been written,’ declared Wynn Weldon in the Spectator. It ‘has the authority of a work of history and pulses with the narrativ

      1 min read

    • Article

      Who Modeled for Indian Head Nickel Design?

      Aug 20, 2021

      Editor’s Note: For nearly 60 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was onc

      5 min read

    • Article

      Killer's Instincts

      Jan 1, 2024

      Killer's Instincts
      4 min read

    Reviews for October 1964

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words