This is a booklet approximately younger males who realized to play baseball in the course of the Thirties and Forties, after which went directly to play for essentially the most intriguing major-league ball golf equipment ever fielded, the staff that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. it's a e-book by way of and a few sportswriter who grew up close to Ebbets box, and who had the nice fortune within the Fifties to hide the Dodgers for the bring in Tribune. this can be a booklet approximately what occurred to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others whilst their glory days have been at the back of them. in brief, it's a ebook fathers and sons and concerning the making of contemporary the US. 'At some extent in lifestyles while one is thru with boyhood, yet has now not but stumbled on the best way to be a guy, it used to be my fortune to go back and forth with the main marvelously beautiful of teams.' Sentimental since it holds such promise, and bittersweet simply because that promise is earlier, the 1st sentence of this masterpiece of wearing literature, first released within the early '70s, units its tone. The staff is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the staff of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a workforce of serious triumph and old import composed of guys whose fragile lives have been choked with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who coated that staff for the recent York usher in Tribune, makes comprehensible people of his heroes as he chronicles the goals and exploits in their younger lives, fantastically intertwining them together with his personal, then recounts how such a lot of of these candy goals curdled because the physique of those as soon as shining stars grew rusty with age and battered through experience.