The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports, Baseball, and Sports.
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 majorleague 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 19...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports, Baseball, and Sports.
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Eric Alper
“Get back into baseball with the best books on the sport: The Game, Jon Pessah Ball Four, Jim Bouton Veeck as in Wreck, Bill Veeck The Wrong Stuff, Bill Lee The Bronx Zoo, Sparky Lyle The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn Five Seasons, Roger Angell Moneyball, Michael Lewis”
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