The team had all of the attributes of its successful teams of the past, excellent pitching, great defense, and speed.

Meantime, the Cardinals expressed much more of the changing climate in America.Īs Halberstam points out, it looked as if all the ingredients of a great team were coming together for the Cardinals in the early 1960s. Halberstam uses the World Series of 1964 as a foil to discuss race relations in the decade, both inside baseball and out, for the Yankees represented an approach to society reflective of a status quo that had much more to do with police brutality against civil rights workers in Selma than the Yankees would care to admit. Here’s what happened in the series, a lot about the book, and likely why Sisko loved that game so much.ĭavid Halberstam’s October 1964 about the World Series between the New York Yankees and the St. There was even a book about the series called ‘October 1964’ written by David Halberstam that discusses it through a racial lens. So I decided to look into that game, wanting to know why Sisko liked it so much, and I discovered it goes deeper then just a great baseball game. (DS9: 'Distant Voices') Later that year, Sisko intended to take Kasidy Yates to that game for one of their first dates. In 2371, he suggested the holosuite program of that game as the venue for celebrating Julian Bashir's thirtieth birthday. According to Benjamin Sisko, game seven of the 1964 World Series was, in his opinion, one of the greatest baseball games of all time.

October 1964 by David Halberstam