Memories of Summer
Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of several eras. His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother's passion was for poetry. Somehow, young Roger managed to blend both loves in a career that encompassed writing about sports for the New York Herald Tribune, Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and Time. Kahn recalls the great personalities of a golden era—Leo Durocher, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Red Smith, Dick Young, and many more—and recollects the wittiest lines from 40 years in dugouts, press boxes, and newsrooms. Often hilarious, always precise about action on the field and off, Memories of Summer is an enduring classic about how baseball met literature to the benefit of both.
English edition · First published 1997 by Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · ISBN 9781522682417
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Editions
4 editions
English
- Memories of Summer · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 2016 · ISBN 9781522682417 This page
- Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game · Diversion Books · 2018 · ISBN 9781938120473
- Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing About It a Game · Hyperion · 1997 · ISBN 9780786883165
- Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing About It a Game · Hyperion · 1997 · ISBN 9780786861903
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