Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood - Tapa blanda

"A charming, evocative, nostalgic paean to a mid-century way of life that has largely vanished, and Bruce Clayton captures its innocence and its essence so well that even those who got here too late for the fifties can share in the vicarious pleasures of that deceptively simple time."--John Egerton "A charming, evocative, nostalgic paean to a mid-century way of life that has largely vanished, and Bruce Clayton captures its innocence and its essence so well that even those who got here too late for the fifties can share in the vicarious pleasures of that deceptively simple time." John Egerton"

This memoir is about Bruce Clayton as a young boy growing up in Kansas City. Clayton tells of boyish adventures, like siphoning ""free"" orange concentrate from Old Man Pierce's drugstore,to family tensions. Final chapters find Clayton swapping childhood hopes for mysteries of the adult world.