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"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.

Roger Kahn is the author of the 1972 classic...

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Overview

"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.

Roger Kahn is the author of the 1972 classic The

Boys of Summer, which Sports Illustrated named the best baseball book of

all time.

Rob Miraldi is a professor of journalism at

the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal
There may be no greater sports book than The Boys of Summer, Kahn's lauded memoir of the Jackie Robinson-era Dodgers, but down the years he has also written superbly about his ownership of a minor league team, the "head game" of pitching, the stormy miracle of the '78 Yankee season, the Columbia sit-ins, the poet Robert Frost, and Jack Dempsey. This eloquent and incisive anthology from Kahn is for all baseball collections. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780071481199
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Publication date: 11/20/2006
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 1,164,994
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Roger Kahn is the author of the 1972 classic The

Boys of Summer, which Sports Illustrated named the best baseball book of

all time.

Rob Miraldi is a professor of journalism at

the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Table of Contents

Prologue : the wonder of writing
Introduction : "sliders with social history"
Pt. I Growing up and being young
Ch. 1 A father, a son, and baseball in Brooklyn 3
Ch. 2 Coming of age 13
Ch. 3 And then there is sex 25
Ch. 4 The dreams of the young 31
Ch. 5 Restless youth : the Columbia uprising 37
Ch. 6 Kareem arrives 45
Pt. II Living your life
Ch. 7 The base : father of the home run 63
Ch. 8 The homer heard round the world 75
Ch. 9 Roger Maris : the ordeal of his success 85
Ch. 10 Henry Aaron : a success story 95
Ch. 11 The great cork crime 113
Pt. III Willie, Mickey, Duke : the New York center fielders
Ch. 12 The "say hey kid" up close 119
Ch. 13 The Mick on and off the field 139
Ch. 14 The Duke in a new pasture 147
Pt. IV Damn good hitters and pitchers
Ch. 15 Eddie Mathews, the man on third 159
Ch. 16 Whitey, the chairman of the board 173
Ch. 17 Joe D's stormy marriage 191
Ch. 18 Catfish in the Big Apple 197
Ch. 19 Pete Rose, the hit man 205
Pt. V The gladiators fight to succeed
Ch. 20 Dempsey : the Manassas mauler goes down 219
Ch. 21 Ali 225
Ch. 22 Billy vs. Reggie 229
Ch. 23 Steinbrenner : a Yankee Doodle Dandy 239
Pt. VI Heroes off the field
Ch. 24 Jackie Robinson : like no one else 253
Ch. 25 Roberto Clemente's triumph and tragedy 271
Ch. 26 Remembering ring 281
Ch. 27 The captain 287
Pt. VII On getting old
Ch. 28 The young writer meets the aged poet 297
Ch. 29 The last summer of Stan the man" 311
Ch. 30 Past their prime 319
Ch. 31 Even sportswriters get old 331
Ch. 32 Carl Furillo, 1922-1989 337
Roger Kahn bibliography 343

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