Roger Kahn
Roger Kahn
Roger Kahnis an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth31 October 1927
CountryUnited States of America
book league major title written
So this is the first book I've written with a title supplied by a major league ballplayer,
book writing pride
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.
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I see the boys of summer in their ruin.
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You may glory in a team triumphant, ... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
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A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.
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Aware, but unself-conscious, Reese and Robinson came to personify integration. If a man didn't like what they personified, why, he better not play for the Dodgers.
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The only reason I'm running is because I feel Bob Barr is the wrong man for Georgia and the wrong man for our country.
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Look at the national furor it caused. If baseball is losing its hold on the people, why is everybody having a nervous breakdown because Rocker said some dumb things? I think baseball still has a huge hold on this country.
lost unusual
They lost, and they lost in unusual ways.
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I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
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Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
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To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.
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Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.