How the Weather Was

The author of The Boys of Summer writes about an array of legendary figures in this collection of essays and interviews from the late 1950s to the 1970s.

"… In the end, the range, like the style, reflects myself. Let the present, then, and the recent past, the ball players, poets, policemen, professors, musicians—in short, these emperors and clowns—stride before you, each hoping, as the author does, to please."

Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Ma...