Described by Richard William of The Guardian as 'the best sports book of 2013, a
nd the best sports book of all time', The Boys of Summer is the story of the you
ng men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and went on to p
lay for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the Brook
lyn Dodgers team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a boo
k by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the goo
d fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for The Herald Tribune. A story abou
t what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when the
glory days were behind them, it is also a book about fathers and sons and the ma
king of modern America.
