A unique entry in Tunis' Brooklyn cycle
Maybe not the Tunis book you start with if you're interested in his Brooklyn Dodgers series, but quite possibly the one you should end with. Game action is not as taut as "World Series," but here you'll find the most insight on the characters as people -- including a virtuoso passage where Tunis shifts from the narrow world-view of the Russell boys to an almost godlike round-the-horn exposition of each Dodger's ancestry and historical origins. Only Tunis could reach such high notes in the genre, and you'll never be too old or too wise to read it again.