The 1968 World Series recalls one of baseball's most celebrated
championship series from the voices of the players who still remain--a
collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they
reflect fifty years later.
Modeled after Lawrence S. Ritter's celebrated book, The Glory of Their
Times--for which the author traversed the country to record stories of
baseball's deadball era--The 1968 World Series will likewise preserve
the days of baseball past, gathering the memories of the remaining
players of the great Tigers and Cardinals teams to assemble their
accounts into a vibrant baseball collection.
The 1968 World Series came at a time of great cultural change--the
fading days of fans dressing up for ballgames, the first years of
widespread color TV--and was an historic matchup of two legendary teams,
pitting star power head-to-head and going the distance of seven
hard-fought games.
From the voices of the players themselves, The 1968 World Series
illustrates in detail what it was like to be a 1968 Tiger, a 1968
Cardinal: what it was like to win it all and to lose it all: what it was
like to face Bob Gibson peering in from the mound, Al Kaline digging in
at the plate; what it was like, in the player's own words, to remember
the days of that most special period in the history of America's
national pastime.
