New York: Citadel Press [Kensington Publishing Corp.], 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 363, [5] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by Larry King. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Lee & Ernestine---With many memories of special teams and special time. Love, Bill April 8, 2003. This work covers the years 1945, 1948, 1951, 1961, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1995, 1998, and 2001. Featuring anecdotes from Dom DiMaggio, Duke Snider, Bob Feller, and Ted Williams, a celebration of American history, as told through ten extraordinary summers of baseball, documents the fusion of American's favorite past time with America's turbulent social history. Bill Gilbert was a long-time sports reporter for The Washington Post. His mentor was the famed, and famous, Shirley Povich whom he met in 1944. Years later, Povich would ask Gilbert to help with his autobiography. In the interim, Gilbert produced a prodigious quantity of sports and other books, befriended Larry King and countless others, and came to know the great, near-great, and greatest pains in the butt in all of baseball. More