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The Boys of Summer
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Jackie Robinson's Dodgers, then and after.
Roger Kahn grew up near Ebbets Field and covered the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Herald Tribune in the early 1950s, the years of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider. Nearly two decades later he tracked the players down to see what life after baseball had brought them. The result is part memoir, part team history and part portrait of America, and it's widely considered a classic of sportswriting.
Shelf
How it reads
Moderate
Best for
- Baseball history fans
- Fathers and sons
- Readers who love classic sportswriting
About this book
- Author
- Roger Kahn
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Published
- May 9, 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-10
- 0060883960
- ISBN-13
- 978-0060883966
Book description
The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what's happened to everybody since.
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. Part sports memoir, part biography, it is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.
How does a team become a legend, and what becomes of legendary men when the cheering stops?
About the author
Roger Kahn (1927-2020) grew up in Brooklyn and covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald Tribune. He wrote nineteen books, and The Boys of Summer is the best known.
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