Beyond the Boys of Summer: The Very Best of Roger Kahn

by Roger Kahn

Overview

"Roger Kahn has spun everyday sports stories into gilded literature."
—San Diego Union Tribune

"Kahn’s fly-on-the-wall style brings to life players most of us knew only from their bubblegum cards."
—Dallas Morning News

From the greatest sportswriter of his generation, Beyond the Boys of Summer features the best of Roger Kahn’s newspaper and magazine work, plus selected excerpts from his celebrated books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071481199
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/20/2006
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	1,102,837
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Roger Kahn is the author of the 1972 classic TheBoys of Summer, which Sports Illustrated named the best baseball book ofall time.

Rob Miraldi is a professor of journalism atthe State University of New York at New Paltz.

What People are Saying About This

Donald Hall

Donald Hall, New York Times Book Review
"Roger Kahn is the best of all with his sweet ear for the cadence of baseball talk."

Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn, from the Prologue
"This is my nineteenth book; all my life I've tried to write literature. I am aware that like Stan Musial or Ted Williams at the bat most of the time I've failed. But the critical word is 'try.' That effort has been a wonder of my life."

Editorial Reviews

There may be no greater sports book than The Boys of Summer, Kahn's lauded memoir of the Jackie Robinson-era Dodgers, but down the years he has also written superbly about his ownership of a minor league team, the "head game" of pitching, the stormy miracle of the '78 Yankee season, the Columbia sit-ins, the poet Robert Frost, and Jack Dempsey. This eloquent and incisive anthology from Kahn is for all baseball collections. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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