This is one of very few books I have read several times over. Told entirely through letters, telegrams and newspaper articles, you'll love the main character and be charmed by the others. So real, I kept thinking it couldn't be fiction.

posted Mar 9, 2008 at 8:20PM

Looking forward to readin it. Another good sports fiction read is Classes Apart www.eloquentbooks.com/ClassesApart.html

posted May 11, 2009 at 7:22AM

This is the story of a smart-aleck boy who brags that a baseball player is his best friend, the letters he writes and the tall tales he tells to get the baseball player to be his best friend, the smart-aleck baseball player who writes back and gives as good as he gets, and the relationship they develop despite their tough-guy exteriors. Set in Brooklyn against the backdrop of World War II, the story is told in letters, notes, telegrams, newspaper clippings, interviews, and report cards. Last Days of Summer is a humorous, timeless tale of friendship, war, growing up, and the grand game of baseball.

posted May 18, 2009 at 1:22PM

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