Big League Dream is a very personal story of magical connections.  It’s a tale of the fortunate and talented few who earned a chance to play Major League Baseball and all the rest of us who could only watch from the stands and wonder what it felt like.

Entertaining, engaging, at times funny and heartwarming, Big League Dream is Roy Berger’s paean to a game he loves and grew up with in a time when heroes were untainted and true blue.

A Baby Boomer who followed the game religiously as a child of the 50s and 60s, Berger was not good enough to even make his high school baseball team. But now as a veteran of more than a dozen Major League Baseball fantasy camps, Berger had a chance to be coached by some of the games most recognizable icons over the course of playing the game he loved with the players he adored.  Roy had access to never-before-told tales of that era.

Big League Dream is the next best thing to sitting down with Bucky Dent, Maury Wills, Kent Tekulve, Ron Swoboda, Jim ‘Mudcat’ Grant, Jon Warden, Gary Bell, Steve ‘Psycho’ Lyons, Jake Gibbs, John Mayberry, Chris Chambliss, Mike LaValliere, Dennis Leonard and Fritz Peterson, who were once every kids’ idol and now thirty, forty and even fifty years later through fantasy camps have become contemporaries and colleagues hearing stories few, if any, have ever heard.

And there’s also a profile of the world’s preeminent hockey play-by-play broadcaster, Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, who put on his beloved Pittsburgh Pirates colors for a week.  And let’s not forget the ladies of the game!

Berger, a Birmingham, Alabama businessman by trade but a writer by instinct, has a talent for putting people at ease and letting them talk.

Big League Dream is the result.