The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn is a great book about the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 50s.
That was a great book! I still have the copy I bought in 1972! (I rate it just behind ‘The Glory of Their Times’ in my large MLB book collection). Kahn was a ‘beat’ writer covering the Dodgers during their 1952 and 1953 seasons and along with their World Series losses after both of those seasons to the Bombers. He got very close to a lot of those players and it was reflected in his writing in the book. I just finished re-reading an old SPORT magazine issue from the 1957 and the ‘SPORT Special’ story that month was on Pee Wee by Roger Kahn. Good stuff.