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Effectively Wild Episode 1972: The Prospects for the Prospects

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Boys of Summer by David Lewis

The boys of summer by Roger Kahn was released in 1972. It recounts the history of the mid 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers, including the 1955 World Series champion squad. The book was met with rave reviews upon release and continues to be heralded as one of the greatest baseball books ever written. We will close this week's show with David Lewis who is an architectural historian and baseball researcher based in Boston.

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