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Beyond the Boys of Summer: The Very Best of Roger Kahn
"Roger Kahn has spun everyday sports stories into gilded literature."
-- San Diego Union Tribune "Kahn’s fly-on-the-wall style brings to life players most of us knew only from their bubblegum cards."
-- Dallas Morning News From the greatest sportswriter of his generation, Beyond the Boys of Summer features the best of Roger Kahn’s newspaper and magazine work, plus selected excerpts from his celebrated books.
-- San Diego Union Tribune "Kahn’s fly-on-the-wall style brings to life players most of us knew only from their bubblegum cards."
-- Dallas Morning News From the greatest sportswriter of his generation, Beyond the Boys of Summer features the best of Roger Kahn’s newspaper and magazine work, plus selected excerpts from his celebrated books.
- GenresBaseballSportsNonfiction
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 31, 2005
About the author
Roger Kahn
47 books66 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Roger Kahn was best known for The Boys of Summer, about the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Roger Kahn was best known for The Boys of Summer, about the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
May 20, 2017
Enjoyable to get one more from Kahn. Brought back great memories.
December 14, 2017
More love for Dem Bums.
June 26, 2010
Excerpt:
A well selected variety of Kahn’s writing is on display here including more than 30 works previously published in Playboy, (the now defunct) Sport, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and many others. In spite of all the accolades from noteworthy sources for his writings about baseball (his favorite players were PeeWee Reese and Jackie Robinson), included here are some significant pieces on Muhammed Ali, Lew Alcindor, campus unrest, and perhaps, my favorite, an essay on retirement. “Past Their Prime” appeared in Playboy and won an award for the best magazine article of 1979. Kahn writes with confidence and an air of authority that can only come with experience and thorough research.
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/...
A well selected variety of Kahn’s writing is on display here including more than 30 works previously published in Playboy, (the now defunct) Sport, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and many others. In spite of all the accolades from noteworthy sources for his writings about baseball (his favorite players were PeeWee Reese and Jackie Robinson), included here are some significant pieces on Muhammed Ali, Lew Alcindor, campus unrest, and perhaps, my favorite, an essay on retirement. “Past Their Prime” appeared in Playboy and won an award for the best magazine article of 1979. Kahn writes with confidence and an air of authority that can only come with experience and thorough research.
Read more: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/...
December 3, 2014
Solid anthology.
The Steinbrenner essay was the best in this collection.
The Steinbrenner essay was the best in this collection.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews