Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The brooklyn dodgers of the early fifties deserve a place in the annals of baseball history. The boys of summer, by roger kahn, is a book about the brooklyn dodgers in the 1950s and about the young men who learned to play baseball in the decades before and then went on to become members. Buy a cheap copy of the boys of summer book by roger kahn. At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of. The boys of summer by roger kahn, first edition, signed. Kahn talks to them about old times, the great moments, the feuds, the epithets. San diego union tribune kahns flyonthewall style brings to life players most of us knew. Roger kahns muchloved book has ensured that this is the case. The author and brooklyn native recreates the magic of ebbets field and the dodgers in an inspiring history of the team that culminates with the exciting 1955 season. The boys of summer 1972 at some point in this period, baseball was crowned the most literary of u. Described by richard william of the guardian as the best sports book of 20, and the best sports book of all time, the boys of summer is the story of the. Buy the boys of summer sports classics pb reissue by kahn, roger isbn.
He later wrote about sports for newsweek, time, and esquire, authored 20 books, and owned a classa minor league team, the utica blue sox, which he helped steer. Kahns pieces, published between 1952 and today, present a vivid, turbulent. The boys of summer by roger kahn, harper perennial modern classic, 2006, 474 pages. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This is an audiobook 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 majorleague ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with jackie robinson. The boys of summer audiobook by roger kahn, read by phil. The boys of summer by roger kahn, first edition abebooks. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the the boys of summer, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Between my brother and myself we read the boys of summer so thoroughly the copy we had split down the middle and eventually fell apart. 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.
The very best of roger kahn was published in the spring of 2005 by mcgrawhill and will make great reading for the mlb allstar break in a couple of weeks july. Mass market paperback published in 1973, kindle edition published in 2011, 0060883960 paperback published in 2006. Kahn was best known for his 1972 baseball book the boys of summer kahn died on february 6, 2020 in mamaroneck, new york at the age of 92 references. One of kahns early ideas for a feature article was a look back at the brooklyn dodgers of the 1950s the team that kahn covered as a beat writer and the same team that kahn and his father rooted for as fans.
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