The Boys of Summer Paperback - 2006
by Roger Kahn
Kahn recreates the magic of Dodger baseball as played in Ebbets Field during the brief dream when Brooklyn was the center of the universe. Along the way, he masterfully interweaves the story of his own youth, from early fandom to young reporterhood, traveling with and writing about his childhood idols.
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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 team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. 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, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.
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- Title The Boys of Summer
- Author Roger Kahn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2006-05-09
- ISBN 9780060883966 / 0060883960
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.3 x 0.98 in (20.27 x 13.46 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86046074
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.357
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