If you grew up in NYC during the 40's and 50's, baseball was the game of choice. Rivalries were heated.Dodger and hated Yankee fans and Giant fans.Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat were always the thorns in the side of the American league and the National League in the World Series. Saul takes you into their lives and gives you a look that you much better understand as an adult. As a kid growing up, they were just the Yankees. Saul makes them real people. You were a Yankee first and then a pitcher. In todays baseball stars get traded like chattel. Loyalty to your team is almost non-existent.
