This book absorbed most of Saturday night and all of Sunday - I managed to get laundry done but very little else. One critic complained that it was really two books and I suppose that is true. The first half is the author's story - how he grew up, how he discovered baseball, the Dodgers, his time as a copyboy and learning the ropes about writing about sports, then his time covering the Dodgers. His Dodgers were the Brooklyn Dodgers, through the 1950s, maybe into the 60s. While I read, they were my Dodgers too.

The second half has Kahn out and about, meeting up with the players from his Dodgers (Clem Labine, George Shuba, Carl Erskine, Andy Pafko, Joe Black, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Billy Cox...and even O'Malley) and hearing their stories, seeing where they are now and hearing about where they came from. They aren't exhaustive interviews - usually dinner, drinks and conversation. I think he spent the most time with Robinson, but then they were closer (in proximity but perhaps emotionally).