{"product_id":"9781683582021","title":"An October to Remember 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It","description":"\u003ci\u003eAn October to Remember 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModeled after Lawrence S. Ritter's celebrated book, \u003ci\u003eThe Glory of Their Times\u003c\/i\u003e--for which the author traversed the country to record stories of baseball's deadball era--\u003ci\u003eAn October to Remember 1968\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the voices of the players themselves, \u003ci\u003eAn October to Remember 1968\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sports Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057988354288,"sku":"9781683582021","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781683582021_p0.jpg?v=1763700692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781683582021","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}