light writing on first page, wear and tear on book cover, book itself very good condition

Pete Rose: My Story

Rose, Pete

KAHN, Roger

Sports & Outdoors

Macmillan Pub. Co.

THE BOYS OF SUMMER.

First Edition, 1972, first printing, with 72 73 74 75 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 at bottom of the last page, an almost like-new hardcover with slight sunning to the cover and maybe read-once, with an unclipped ($8.95 t5op, 0372 bottom, front flap) dust jacket that has considerable rubbing and chipping at the spine ends, outer corners and edges, also small dog ears to the corners of the back flap, from Harper &amp; Row. By Roger Kahn. 442 pages. SBN 06-012239-0.

The Boys of Summer

Baseball

Harper&Row

Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Bobby Thomson, Al Rosen, Jascha Heifetz, and other heroic figures in their years of glory, in their times of trial. This is a book about people to be remembered, and what it was like in America at a very special time.

How the Weather Was

Miscellaneous

Harper

But not to keep: A novel

Stated First Edition (and first printing, with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean yellow boards with rust brown cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight, pages are clean with clean endpapers,very slight dust speckling to text block edges. No names, writing or marks. 175 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. During one full baseball season Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talked to some of its practitioners and veterans, and tried to find out whether it still had the same old magic. The search takes him from Massachusetts to California, from Oregon to Puerto Rico, and from the Little Leagues to the Majors.

A Season in the Sun

"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 team that broke the color 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 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 a book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.

The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

This is a book about some young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s in such places as Reading, Pennsylvania; Anderson, Indiana; Plainfield, New Jersey; Woonsocket, Rhode Island; and then went on to play for one of the most exciting professional teams that the major leagues ever fielded--the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s--the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson and set many other records besides.
It is also a book by and about a once-young sportswriter for the Herald Tribune who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, was nurtured on Joyce and Shakespeare and occasionally escaped to see his bumbling heroes play, and then had the miraculous good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodger team for the Tribune.
Finally, this is a book about what's happened since to Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo and the others, no longer boys but men in their middle years with their glories behind them. For some, they have been happy years; to others, fate has not been kind. In short, it is a book about America and how it has progressed from the 1930s to the 1970s, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster. Told with warmth, humor, wit, candor and love, The Boys of Summer is delightful and exhilarating.

This is a book about some young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s in such places as Reading, Pennsylvania; Anderson, Indiana; Plainfield, New Jersey; Woonsocket, Rhode Island; and then went on to play for one of the most exciting professional teams that the major leagues ever fielded--the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s--the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson and set many other records besides.
It is also a book by and about a once-young sportswriter for the Herald Tribune who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, was nurtured on Joyce and Shakespeare and occasionally escaped to see his bumbling heroes play, and then had the miraculous good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodger team for the Tribune.
Finally, this is a book about what's happened since to Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo and the others, no longer boys but men in their middle years with their glories behind them. For some, they have been happy years; to others, fate has not been kind. In short, it is a book about America and how it has progressed from the 1930s to the 1970s, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster. Told with warmth, humor, wit, candor and love, The Boys of Summer is delightful and exhilarating.

HarpPerenM

Spanning half a century, the first comprehensive anthology of the great Roger Kahn's writing, for a new generation of sports fans Roger Kahn, author of 19 books including the modern classic The Boys of Summer, is arguably America's greatest sportswriter. Now, for the first time, Beyond the Boys of Summer presents a showcase of 50 years worth of Kahn's celebrated work. From a 1955 article on the incomparable Jackie Robinson to excerpts from his recent bestselling book on the controversial '78 Yankees, this unprecedented anthology spans an entire career to show off the grace, wit, and elegance of Roger Kahn's most memorable writing on sports, as well as his reporting beyond the world of baseball diamonds and boxing rings. Uniquely organized around life's stages, the book brings readers face to face with some of the greatest names in sport, including Muhammad Ali, Jack Dempsey, Reggie Jackson, and Pete Rose. Through Kahn's fly-on-the-wall style, readers will see Duke Snider in the avocado fields of California, Mickey Mantle in Texas taverns, and Joe DiMaggio watching his famous wife, Marilyn Monroe, flirt for the movie cameras. In the final segment, Kahn meets the 80-year-old poet Robert Frost, mourns the deaths of friends and heroes, and movingly writes about how sports stars--and even sportswriters--grow old, looking back on a long life well lived.

Beyond the Boys of Summer

McGraw=Hill

"Roger Kahn has spun everyday sports stories into gilded literature." --San Diego Union Tribune "Kahn’s fly-on-the-wall style brings to life players most of us knew only from their bubblegum cards." --Dallas Morning News From the greatest sportswriter of his generation, Beyond the Boys of Summer features the best of Roger Kahn’s newspaper and magazine work, plus selected excerpts from his celebrated books.

Beyond the Boys of Summer: The Very Best of Roger Kahn

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Pete Rose: My Story

The Boys of Summer

How the Weather Was

But not to keep: A novel

A Season in the Sun

The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

THE BOYS OF SUMMER.

The Boys of Summer

Beyond the Boys of Summer

Beyond the Boys of Summer: The Very Best of Roger Kahn