Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The boys of summer, Roger Kahn

Label
The boys of summer, Roger Kahn
Language
eng
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The boys of summer
Oclc number
68566888
Responsibility statement
Roger Kahn
Series statement
Harper Perennial modern classics
Summary
"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"--Back cover
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