Larry Colton

Books / 1993

Goat Brothers

In 1960 they were the winners…and then the rules changed.

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Synopsis

They were the golden boys at PiKA, the jock frat house at Berkeley. They spent their days on the playing fields, their nights with icy kegs and willing women. In 1960, the future seemed endless.

Then the rules changed. The 1960s swept through America like a hurricane, and the golden boys of Pi Kappa Alpha had to figure out who they were in a world that no longer held a place for them. Goat Brothers is the story of Larry Colton and his fraternity brothers — their triumphs, their failures, their marriages and divorces, their struggles with identity in an era of upheaval. It is a deeply personal book, written with humor and unflinching honesty.

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My First Game

Larry's major-league debut against Pete Rose and the Cincinnati Reds — drawn from the pages of Goat Brothers.

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