Baby Boomer Baseball: True Stories from the Golden Age of the Game

Baseball has enchanted generations of players and fans with its charm and has been a constant in American life since the nineteenth century.

Growing up as a boy in the 1950s and 1960s, Robert Kravetz learned the art of fending for himself on the baseball diamond. There, he and fellow players settled arguments and honed their baseball skills, learning the intricacies of a beautifully simplistic game.

His baseball hero—and the hero for millions of other boys—was Mickey Mantle. At seven ye...