1989 "Summer Of '49" Yankees vs. Red Sox Hardcover Book I have for ... '49" by David Halberstam (1989). The book contains 304 pages with vintage black and... the 1949 Pennant Race between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Front Jacket Excerpt: "Thus David Halberstam begins his...in which two legendary rivals, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, battled down to a winner-take-all ...