"A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s." — New York Times

The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what’s happened to everybody since.

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.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 9, 2006
• Edition ‏ : ‎ Reissue
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060883960
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060883966
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.98 x 5.3 x 0.98 inches
• Condition: USED (Good)

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