Based on True Events…

Former high school baseball star James Dalton lies in a blast hole in Vietnam staring death right in the face. There he makes a promise to God to be a good father and always keep his family together, if only he lives. The effects of that promise are shown in the years ahead…

Years later, alive and well, veteran James moves his family to the mining town of Rupland where baseball is that of a religion. His three sons: Michael, Matthew and Mark, become intertwined with the game and the town’s growing problems that tear the family apart.

The father of a true ball player, a rebel and a story teller, James battles to keep his boys together through Rupland’s hardships of alcohol and drug abuse, death, decline and war. From Little League to the town’s famous “Summer League”, the Dalton boys grow to follow different paths in life that change the course of their family forever.

The Boys of Summer tells the story of a family, baseball and the American dream’s glory and demise in the baseball-obsessed town of Rupland.