A Season in the Sun

Through visiting the game's players and veterans of all ages and skill levels, a writer chronicles the state of baseball in the summer of 1976.

For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing and find out whether it still had the same old magic.

His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to make the Majors, to Houston for a look at the financial disaster of the Astros and the Astrodome, and ...