When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore: A Father and a Son, a Team and a Time. This item is unavailable.When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore: A Father and a Son, a Team and a Time

Describes 1950s Baltimore, offers profiles of famous Colts players of the era, and recounts the author's relationship with his father

"Mr. Gildea's book is at once an elegy and a eulogy... In this volume, every word is from the heart."

(New York Times)

"When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore is more than just a sports compendium. It is a hymn, or perhaps an old fight song, for a city, a childhood, a whole simpler way of life that is gone from America as the Colts are gone from Baltimore."

(Washington Post)

"If you're looking for the sweetest, most nostalgic football book in a long time, check out When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore.."

(Los Angeles Daily News)

"William Gildea's When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore is to football what Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer was to baseball. It's one of the best reads in a long, long time and should be a best seller."

(Larry King)