Summary
“A moving elegy … [to] the best team the majors ever saw … the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.” – New York Times
The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what’s happened to everybody since.
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 belov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060883966 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0060883960 |
| Author: | Roger Kahn |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperPerennial |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 670g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 135mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports.” - James Michener
“A moving elegy … [to] the best team the majors ever saw … the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.” - New York Times
Roger Kahn
Roger Kahn, a prize-winning author, grew up in Brooklyn, where he says everybody on the boys’ varsity baseball team at his prep school wanted to play for the Dodgers. None did. He has written nineteen books. Like most natives of Brooklyn, he is distressed that the Dodgers left. “In a perfect world,” he says, “the Dodgers would have stayed in Brooklyn and Los Angeles would have gotten the Mets.”
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