AUTHOR BIO

Richard J. Petre Jr. is a retired Louisiana lawyer and the author of a legal handbook. More important, he remembers kids wanting to be Johnny Unitas and Sandy Koufax, listening to games on faraway AM radio stations through bursts of static, and devouring box scores and tables showing league leaders in morning and evening newspapers tossed on front lawns. This is his tribute to that time. He lives in Mandeville, Louisiana.