Through a vast number of interviews with players and managers, Pepe examines and reveals how baseball evolved more during the 1970s than at any other time in the sport's history. The DVD "Baseball Comes of Age" accompanies every book.

Phil Pepe is the author of more than 40 books on sports, including collaborations with Yankee legends Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, and Whitey Ford. He was the Yankees beat writer for the New York Daily News from 1968 to 1981 and is former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Bucky Dent is a former professional baseball player and manager who famously hit a homerun for the New York Yankees to help between the Boston Red Sox in a tie-breaker game in 1978.