Welcome to Chicago's Southside L. Curt Erler comes from a large, hardworking family and in his autobiography, Southside Kid; he pays homage to strong family values, a simpler time at the tail end of WWII. The author recalls his childhood growing up on Chicago's Southside. The family gathering around Mom's Philco radio listening to Glenn Miller and Frankie Laine. There's dancing and drag racing on the East Side. It's all here, baseball, movie matinees at the Avalon Theater, young love and Friday night dances with the St. Felicitas kids. Moving into the mid-50's you'll find yourself surrounded...

"Mantilla Lady"; transports you into the lives and endeavors of young men that for the most part lack the finer talents necessary to reach the higher levels of their favorite game - baseball While my little story indeed begins on a cold baseball diamond one early spring day in my beloved Chicago. It does segway into a love story. Not a love story of the pulp fiction type. Just a peek at what life is really all about. After all - it's all about L-O-V-E One young man's longing for the love and companionship of an elusive young woman. This woman has more than one mission in her young years....