Paperback, 474 pages
English language
Published May 9, 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn
4 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Baseball
- Sports & Recreation
- Sports
- Baseball - History
- Baseball - Specific Teams
- Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History
- Biography
- History
- Sportswriters
- United States