The role of the Communist Party in the integration of baseball is examined, as well as the role played by racism and the red scare in the Dodgers' eventual move to Los Angeles. The Dodger team helped to change America, and were ultimately changed by America. The Dodger mystique is explored through interviews with these men and their families as well as their contemporaries. The series will incorporate the last interview with Roy Campanella, as well as the last interviews with Mickey Mantle and Don Drysdale.

Rare photographs and exclusive historical footage, as well as home movies, are used extensively throughout the series to present a living history of true American heroes who faced moral and professional dilemmas during a volatile American epoch. Mark Reese, Pee Wee's son and program producer, director, and writer, has been granted unlimited intimate access into the lives of these great Americans and their families. With this blessing, Mark has searched tirelessly through the closets, scrapbooks, and libraries of the families involved. The men and women and stories featured in the series have figured so prominently in Mark's life that it can be said these documentaries have been 39 years in the making. For the viewer the series will be an extended invitation into the "Dodger family," presenting a warm and personal "scrapbook" perspective that promises to be unlike any documentary series of this type. Host Roger Kahn -- author of the quintessential baseball book, The Boys of Summer -- leads the viewer through five and a half hours of Dodger and American history, from the 1940s through the early 1960s.