Boys of Summer

<p><strong>A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. -- <em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and what's happened to everybody since.</strong></p><p>This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for <em>The Herald Tribune</em>. This is a book about what happened to Jackie Carl Erskine Pee Wee Reese and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short it is a book about America about fathers and sons prejudice and courage triumph and disaster and told with warmth humor wit candor and love.</p>