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The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn
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Description for The Boys of Summer
Paperback. 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. Series: Sports Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WSBT; WSBX; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 460.
Described by Richard William of The Guardian as 'the best sports book of 2013, and the best sports book of all time', The Boys of Summer is the story of the young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the Brooklyn Dodgers team that broke the colour 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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Sports Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781311783
SKU
V9781781311783
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Roger Kahn
Roger Kahn is an award winning writer and journalist who worked at the Tribune and Newsweek. The Boys of Summer was voted one of the top 100 sports books of all time, in 2002, by Sports Illustrated magazine.
Reviews for The Boys of Summer
'Perhaps the most celebated baseball book of the last 50 years.' 'I cannot conceive that this year, nor next year, nor the year after that, will produce a more important book - a better written one, a more consistently engrossing one than this portraited of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, as they were in the sinew and swiftness of ... Read more