Bibliograph

The boys of summer, Roger Kahn

Type

Label

The boys of summer, Roger Kahn

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The boys of summer

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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

Target audience

adult

Classification