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Title: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn ISBN: 0-06-095634-8 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Baseball Classic - for the fans, by a fan!
Comment: New York City in the '40s and '50s ~ twenty-three of forty pennant winners during those two decades came from the city (including the '59 LA Dodgers). Eight times in twenty years, the city enjoyed a subway series; thirteen times the World Series champion came from New York. Imagine being a baseball fan in New York; could there be a better time and place to be a fan? Imagine loving the game and adoring the Dodgers, all the while, living in Brooklyn and growing-up in the shadow of Ebbets Field. Imagine then, your chosen career path offers you the opportunity to be the Dodgers beat reporter in the early '50s.
Sit back and let Roger Kahn take you on a trip to Brooklyn in the 1950s. It's part baseball, part memoir, and a part Americana that is likely gone forever. The book is a moving tribute to the Brooklyn Dodgers and the city in which they played. It's all about a special relationship between the team, the city, and its fans. Some critics argue the book is self-indulgent, imposing too much of Kahn's personal life onto the baseball story. I would argue that Kahn is part of the story. He is not only writing about the Dodgers' and their fans, he is a Dodgers fan. There is no way the author could write an emotional tribute without the emotions.
Pay special attention to the detail in Kahn's account. He is a baseball reporter before the internet and ESPN, when an fan's only real contact with the team came from newspapers and radio. His access to the Dodgers is remarkable and his detail spot-on. You follow the team and its players through all the emotional ups and downs of two major league baseball seasons. You go inside the game, as seen from the Dodgers' locker room, with a team that is on the forefront of racial integration. Finally, you visit the Dodgers again after the game ends. The players are grown up, grown old and have re-entered the real world. It is Kahn's continuing tribute to those players that meant so much to Brooklyn and the team. The Boys Of Summer is a book about being a baseball fan written by a baseball fan! It's all about respecting the game and appreciating the players who play it. Baseball fans will not be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Comment: My mother brought this book years ago in a three books for a dollar deal. The other two are long gone, unread and forgotten. Between my brother and myself we read The Boys of Summer so thoroughly the copy we had split down the middle and eventually fell apart. One of the first things i did when i visited the US a while back was buy another copy of this wonderful book. At the very core of it lay two themes,courage and frustration. It covers Jackie Robinsons team of the early 50's. They were good but never quite good enough. Like the modern day Atlanta Braves the Brooklyn Dodgers kept running into a juggernaut called the New York Yankees. They say that for every winner there is a loser. Thats not true. For every winner there are thousands of losers. Only one team/person can hold up the trophy at the end of the season. The Brooklyn Dodgers of the early 1950's represent the rest of us, the also rans. Roger Kahn brilliantly brings those days back to life and by then covering the men after their glory days are long behind them the book transcends sports and becomes a study of humanity in all its fraility. The fact that the Dodgers moved away not long after finally breaking through in the World Series only intensifies the tragedy of it all. It says something that a white boy growing up on the other side of the world can come to admire someone like Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play Major League Baseball, whos deeds and presence are discussed at some length in the pages of this book. He is my only hero. The Boys of Summer is a classic. I would recommend it to anyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Book!
Comment: If you love to read books on baseball and you don't own this one you are missing out. I own many baseball books and this one is in the top 5.
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