The Boys of Summer

The first half of the book includes rich descriptions about growing up in Brooklyn and loving the Dodgers and then becoming a journalist who covered the great Dodgers teams. The second half of the book involves the author visiting with the players from those great Dodgers teams 20 years later. The epilogue describes some of the initial responses to the book, which were my own feelings: “A newspaper reviewer named Jonathan Yardley had trouble understanding the relationship between the two major sections...Yardley complained, not entirely pleasantly, that I had written two books, not one.” In addition to my confusion about the two sections of the book, I also didn't quite get the point of the book overall, other than to recount memories for the author. I kept expecting him to work his way to some great point, but he never did. However, that isn't to say I didn't enjoy the book. As a huge baseball fan, reading detailed recollections about players and games was enjoyable.