Long time award winning sports writer and broadcaster Bobby Johnson takes you on a memorable journey from Memorial Day--the unofficial beginning of summer--to 2004's wonderful World Series! A guaranteed happy ending!

Seventy-five years after the New London, Texas, school explosion instantaneously ended life for three hundred students, haunted memories of all who knew them, and hushed a community's discussion of an unspeakable event, the detailed story is now told. On March 18, 1937, Bobby H. Johnson was an infant in New London destined to become the scribe, oral historian, and dramatist for the tragedy. His first-grade brother became a member of the exclusive circle of "survivors" by fluke: Forgetting that his mother had given him permission to stay after school and play with a friend, he took an early...