Book excerpt: Glory Daze transports the reader to a small town situated amongst cornfields of Indiana and the late 1960s. Fun could be had on the baseball diamonds known as sandlots. Trouble could also be found without much effort. This book relates some of the ups and downs of a game that often has more downs than ups. It explores pain of a first strike out to the joy of that first hit. In a time of great change and molded in the crucible of the hot sandlot, we all pretty much turned out okay.