The Boys of Summer
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 9, 2006
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in baseball history and the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s
- Themes
- baseball history, courage and prejudice, father-son relationships
- Pacing
- Reflective
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"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.
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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.
Why It Clicks
Come here for
- baseball essays with a layered, reflective touch
- civil rights and fathers, threaded through sport
Expect
- a sustained narrative read
- a fit for staging, class, or your Roger Kahn track
Where it sits
| Sports Lives | 73% |
|---|---|
| Baseball History | 50% |
| Personal Memoirs | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- Sports Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- American Plays
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- 20th-Century America
- Middle Atlantic History
- Western U.S. History
- World History
- Authors
- Roger Kahn
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 9, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- baseball history · courage and prejudice · father-son relationships
- Reading lane
- Lives in History