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Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his
Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a
record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of
several eras.
His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother's passion
was for poetry. Somehow, young Roger managed to blend both loves in
a career that encompassed writing about sports for the "New York
Herald Tribune," "Sports Illustrated," the "Saturday Evening Post,"
"Esquire," and "Time,"
Kahn recalls the great personalities of a golden era--Leo
Durocher, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Red Smith,
Dick Young, and many more--and recollects the wittiest lines from
forty years in dugouts, press boxes, and newsrooms. Often
hilarious, always precise about action on the field and off,
"Memories of Summer" is an enduring classic about how baseball met
literature to the benefit of both.
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