The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
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The Boys of Summer
The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since

Author: Roger Kahn

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 12 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/19/2009

Synopsis

This is an audiobook 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 an audiobook 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 an audiobook about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.“A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports.” —James Michener

About Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn is the award-winning author of The Boys of Summer, the classic bestseller about Jackie Robinson, the Dodgers and growing up in Brooklyn. He is the author of many other books whose subjects range from baseball to political activism, including Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love about the courtship and marriage of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe and A Flame of Pure Fire, A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1999 about boxing great Jack Dempsey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on July 19, 2018

”Sooner or Later,” the author Ed Linn observes, “society beats down the man of muscle and sweat.” Surely these fine athletes, these boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin. But one does not come away from visits with them, from long nights remembering the past and considering the present, f......more

Goodreads review by Ed on February 02, 2019

I wanted to read a baseball book, and this classic about the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers fit the bill nicely.......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on August 17, 2013

You really can't pick a better book to read in the throes of summer, or in any season of life, for that matter. More than a book about baseball or summer, this is a book about living and what makes living so good. The Boys, ascending from unassuming childhoods and lowly towns, somehow seemed fated t......more

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