- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Reissue edition (Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060956348
- ISBN-13: 978-0060956349
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 3.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,351,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Focuses on the lives of the baseball stars who gained recognition playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1950's.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some sports lend themselves to quality writing. In the UK the finest prose is almost always devoted to cricket. Perhaps it's the slow pace,allowing contemplation, punctuated by bursts of intense action, or its historical link to some pastoral England which may or may not have existed. . Baseball is similarly blessed in the USA,and Kahn's book with its thoughtful ,insightful and moving style, its unashamed and autobiographical content, and its warts and all description of the struggles of black athletes for acceptance in 1950s America, is outstanding. Its greatest triumph, though, is the obvious love and respect that the author has not only for the game but also those flawed and complex characters who played it. The book glows with this warmth, as it follows the mixed fortunes of the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers some 20 years later.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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There's no sugarcoating of the Jackie Robinson Dodgers in this story. We see them in full, pioneers, bigots, fathers and husbands.
The way that they have survived the changes in their lives says far more about their character than any penny-ante poem or polemic. Kahn lived and worked with these men for two years, and his achievement is that he makes us feel that we knew them as well as he did.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very sad story of how fate conspired to rob a team of the success they deserved and then dealt so cruelly with many of the players in their later lives. The story of the seasons Kahn spent with the team is absorbing. The stories of his meetings with them many years later are moving. The book is brilliantly written. It is about sport but more about the struggles of mankind. An undoubted 5 stars.
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A different ball game
As a baseball ignoramus, a lot of this book whistled over my head like a hundred-mile an hour hard ball. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Edward Rogers
I See The Boys Of Summer In Their Ruin...
Roger Kahn has long been hailed as the greatest American sports writer and after reading 'The Boys Of Summer' it is easy to see why. Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2007 by SJR
Very dissapointing
If you are expecting an insightful potrait of baseball in 1950's Brooklyn look elsewhere. What this book delivers instead is a re-heated version of "Portrait of the Artist as... Read more
Published on 1 Jan 1999
Roger Kahn vividly describes his days with Brookyln Dodgers.
The "Boys of Summer" is a fascinating book. Roger Kahn vividly descibes his days with the likes of Robinson, Reese, Durocher, Labine, Erskine, Cox,Black, Campenella.
Published on 5 May 1998
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