Last Days of Summer

"Wonderful . . . A modern-day Catcher in the Rye" —a poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric behavior, and unlikely friendship (Portland Press Herald).Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the al...