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Kahnʻs The Boys of Summer Does Boys of Summer work? Not a terribly difficult read, but gripping nonetheless. Especially the chapter on Jackie Robinson. ... won it, of course, so that alone would make it a memorable year.
That reminds me; one of these days I have to read The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn's masterpiece about the Dodgers in the 1950s. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
great baseball book - read some years ago ... for me.
I will have to check out Murder at Wrigley Field! I have read several of Roger Kahn's books including The Boys of Summer. Shoeless Joe was very good. I have not yet read The Natural either. Maybe one of these centuries! ... to have been there on 2131. I was there about a month before he broke the record, I wind up going a few times a year.
The Boys of Summer is on my TBR list. I'm also trying to find a copy of Baseball Between the Numbers and The Numbers Game. ... several fine days at Camden Yards, including Cal's day 2131.
Enjoyed any good baseball books? One of my favorites is The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn. Own but haven't read Ball Four by Jim Bouton.
Also, in the fiction arena Murder at Wrigley Field-good read!!! Loved Shoeless Joe ... ... enev
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Summer of Love by Debbie Drechler
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
... books are truly great.
Here's the (very short) list of baseball books I have read ranked in order of preference:
1. Boys of Summer (One of my all-time favorite books in any genre)
2. Moneyball
3. Numbers game
4. Physics of baseball
5. When the Bad Guys Won (Probably not an ... ... fiction goes way beyond Park Slope.
Pete Hamill's Snow In August is also set in Brooklyn in the 1950's.
Boys of Summer is a classic baseball book, in those days ballplayers lived in the borough(several in Bay Ridge) and took cabs and subways to the park. ... leave this in place. For those for whom Brooklyn is forever the Dodgers and Ebbetts Field, I think that Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer is important; Doris Kearns Goodwin's autobiography with baseball is lots of fun. For Red Hook, there's A View from the Bridge. I found C. Everett Ko ...
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