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Baseball Musings
April 23, 2007
Sad News

David Halberstam died in a car accident:

Halberstam, a New Yorker, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.

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The driver of the car carrying Halberstam is a student at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and was taken to Stanford Medical Center. Two others were injured.

My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

I really enjoyed The Teammates. It gave me a new respect for the Red Sox teams of the 40s. I've read chapters of Summer of '49, also. He had a talent for putting you in the moment with his writing. It's sad to see him go so unexpectedly.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:09 PM | Deaths | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Sorry to hear the sad news. "Summer of '49" is one of my favorite baseball books, even though the ending was a disappointment to this BoSox fan.

In addition to being a great fan of baseball, Mr. Halberstam was one of the great observers of this nation's experiences in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam.

He'll be missed.

Posted by: dfleming at April 23, 2007 11:24 PM

He will definitely be missed, although I remember Bill James, in one of the abstracts ('87?), pointing out some obvious errors in Halberstam's text.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2007 09:38 AM
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