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Informationen zum Autor Roger Kahn (1927–2020) is the author of the classic The Boys of Summer and is a visiting lecturer on creative writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His books Good Enough to Dream, A Season in the Sun, and The Era, 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World are available in Bison Books editions. Klappentext Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood! a recollection of a life in journalism! and a record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of several eras. His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother's passion was for poetry. Somehow! young Roger managed to blend both loves in a career that encompassed writing about sports for the "New York Herald Tribune!" "Sports Illustrated!" the "Saturday Evening Post!" "Esquire!" and "Time!" Kahn recalls the great personalities of a golden era--Leo Durocher! Mickey Mantle! Willie Mays! Jackie Robinson! Red Smith! Dick Young! and many more--and recollects the wittiest lines from forty years in dugouts! press boxes! and newsrooms. Often hilarious! always precise about action on the field and off! "Memories of Summer" is an enduring classic about how baseball met literature to the benefit of both. Zusammenfassung Shows how baseball met literature.
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Roger Kahn (1927–2020) is the author of the classic The Boys of Summer and is a visiting lecturer on creative writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His books Good Enough to Dream, A Season in the Sun, and The Era, 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World are available in Bison Books editions.
