Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><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 the <em>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></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>"ife when one is through with boyhood?? but has not yet discovered how to be a man?? it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams."entimental because it holds such promise?? and bittersweet because that promise is past?? the first sentence of th