The Boys of SummerA 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