Bang the Drum Slowly Author:Mark Harris Remember the 50s, when ballplayers were gods and the Major leagues seemed like heaven? Bang the Drum slowly is about those golden years- and all the things that never made the sports pages. It is about players and wives at home and stewardesses on the road and money and three day drunks and youth and age and moments of intense truth on the fie... more »ld and off. It is bawdy, hilarious, and irreverent as it goes into the locker rooms and bedrooms.« less