The Boys of Summer Audiobook (Free)

That is a book about teenagers who learned to try out baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to try out for one of the very most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a publication by and about a sportswriter who was raised near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to hide the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. That is a reserve about what occurred to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and others when their glory times were behind them. Simply speaking, it is a book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and devastation, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love. “A function of high purpose and poetic achievement. The best possible American book on sports activities.” – Adam Michener