
The Boys of Summer
- ISBN 13:
9780060883966
- ISBN 10:
0060883960
- Edition: Revised
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 04/26/2010
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
Note: Not guaranteed to come with supplemental materials (access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.)
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Summary
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 the Herald Tribune. 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. A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports.” – James Michener