The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

From Cleveland, Ohio, I bummed my way to Waterloo, Iowa. I was sixteen years old and I’d never been away from home before. It took me five days and five nights, riding freight trains, sleeping in open fields, hitching rides any way I could.