Gary D'Amato

Not many people get to do what they enjoy most and make a living at it. I've been fortunate to have been a sportswriter for more than four decades, a job that took me all over the world and never felt like work. I've written a number of books, mostly about sports, but my latest -- "A Perfect Childhood: Growing Up in the 1960s with Baseball, The Beatles and Beaver Cleaver" -- is autobiographical. It's a collection of stories about my goofy friends and the things we did growing up in the '60s in St. Francis, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. Without cable TV, iPhones, PS4 and Netflix, we had to invent our own fun ... and I think we did a pretty good job of it. "A Perfect Childhood" is an easy two-hour read. I hope people enjoy reading it half as much as I enjoyed writing it.