Blog #5

In this part of October 1964 the season is underway and early off the Cardinals are struggling. Their pitching is not doing good(excluding Bob Gibson) especially their bullpen. Also the younger players and the older players have yet to cooperate with each other and actually work together as a team. So the Cardinals are deffinately not looking like a playoff contending team right away. However the Yankees that are always promising are just cruising through teams and blowing them away. Their offense is always amazing with not a single weak hitter in the lineup, not counting the end of the order with rookie players like Joe Pepitone. While reading October 1964 I really got tosee what baseball was like back then and got to see what the great players of that time like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris really were. Players I would never get to see play today. Which I think the author David Halbestam did a phenominal job writing this book and describing it in great detail.