One Summer Day in America: July 13 1954

Both the game of baseball and the United States were in a golden age in 1954 and the author take a look at both, focusing on the All Star game played Cleveland, Ohio that year. Legendary ballplayers bound for the Hall of Fame roamed the field that day and a written replay of what was a record-setting game brings them to life. Beyond the stadium walls, post-World War II America was building and burgeoning and the book examines events happening in both Cleveland and the nation through the eyes of newspapers, the still reigning king of the media world. Topics ranging from 1950's prosperity and optimism to fears of communism and to Cleveland's most sensational murder ever are revisited