The title of Clyde Bolton's warm memoir of his formative years is taken from a high-school cheer: ''Statham Wildcats on the ball/They've been drinking Hadacol.'' If you know what Hadacol is, Bolton cheerfully admits, that dates both you and him; if you don't, ask your parents or grandparents. The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, now as long gone as Hadacol but equally effervescent in the author's nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life was like in small Southern towns of the 1940s and 1950s. In a lesser writer's hands, this raw material might not amount to more than sentiment. But Bolton isn't just any writer. He is the dean of Southern sports columnists and the author of six novels and a dozen nonfiction books about football, auto racing, and other subjects. Over a journalism career spanning five decades, he became one of the most widely read and respected writers in the region. Thus, when he writes about driving with his parents into Atlanta to see the...

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