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  • The Era, 1947–1957

    When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World

    by Roger Kahn ...
    The author of The Boys of Summer explores the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport.The Era begins in 1947, with Jackie Robinson changing major league baseball forever by taking the field for the Dodgers. Dazzling, momentous events characterize the decade that followed—Robinson's amazing accomplishments; the explosion on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boys of Summer

    by Roger Kahn ...
    "A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s." — New York TimesThe 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Flame of Pure Fire

    Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s

    by Roger Kahn ...
    Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into My Own

    The Remarkable People and Events that Shaped a Life

    by Roger Kahn ...
    From the author of A Season in the Sun, a memoir from one of America's foremost sportswriters about his life and influences.After successful seasons as a newspaperman and magazine writer, Roger Kahn burst onto the national scene in 1972 with his memorable bestseller, The Boys of Summer, memorializing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here he wrote a book for the hearts and minds of his readers. Chronicling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memories of Summer

    When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game

    by Roger Kahn ...
    The legendary sportswriter's memoir of Brooklyn, baseball, and a life in journalism: "Simply put, this is a marvelous book" ( Kirkus Reviews).In this book, the bestselling author of The Boys of Summer shares stories of his Depression-era Brooklyn childhood, his career during a golden era of sports, and his personal acquaintances with a wide range of great ballplayers.His father had a passion for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Enough to Dream

    by Roger Kahn ...
    The true story of a year in the life of the Utica Blue Sox, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York, by the acclaimed author of The Boys of Summer.Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Good Enough to Dream does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived.Here, Kahn tells the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Season in the Sun

    by Roger Kahn ...
    Through visiting the game's players and veterans of all ages and skill levels, a writer chronicles the state of baseball in the summer of 1976.For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing and find out whether it still had the same old magic.His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to make the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roger Kahn Reader

    Six Decades of Sportswriting

    by Roger Kahn ...
    Most famous for his classic work The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn is widely regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of our time. The Roger Kahn Reader is a rich collection of his stories and articles that originally appeared in publications such as Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Esquire, and the Nation.Kahn’s pieces, published between 1952 and today, present a vivid, turbulent, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • How the Weather Was

    by Roger Kahn ...
    The author of The Boys of Summer writes about an array of legendary figures in this collection of essays and interviews from the late 1950s to the 1970s."… In the end, the range, like the style, reflects myself. Let the present, then, and the recent past, the ball players, poets, policemen, professors, musicians—in short, these emperors and clowns—stride before you, each hoping, as the author does ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town

    Drugs, Sex, Sports, Arts, and Social Conflict

    by Roger Kahn ...
    "How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town," is a fun-filled social history about the evolution of a once tiny, working-class, ethnic, mining town into one of today's major destination tourist towns and recreation communities that cater to the recreation needs of both its upper-middle class visitors and residents alike. That transformation occured in the post-WWII period as our nation was moving ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Rickey & Robinson

    The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball

    by Roger Kahn ...
    In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including revelatory material he'd buried in his notebooks in the 40s and 50s, back when ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom

    Series series Little Books
    Novelist W. P. Kinsella wrote that baseball is a game where little gems of wisdom or whimsy can be created in the dugout, the bullpen, or the press box during long, hot afternoons and evenings of baseball.” The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom unearths a treasury of quotes reflecting more than a century’s worth of history from our national pastime. Featuring contributions from Hank Aaron to Walt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD