A Season in the Sun (Paperback)

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"Baseball is too often confused with the Major Leagues. . . . Baseball is also college and Little League, high school and vacant lot and American Legion and Class A. A Season in the Sun takes its form from Roger Kahn's notion of baseball's scope. To make this book, Kahn spent [a] summer touching down at the four corners of the baseball world. . . . For baseball's characteristic stories-anecdotes and lore the game is rich with-Roger Kahn is best of all, with his sweet ear for the cadence of baseball talk. . . . Take Roger Kahn's A Season in the Sun down from the bookshelf to hear the soft baseball voices repeating old games in your ear, stories for summer nights or for long winters away from the diamond and the green."-New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review )

"A time capsule of the ''70''s as well as a prescient look at what the game would eventually become."-USA Today Baseball Weekly (USA Today Baseball Weekly )

Product Description

In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, from spring training through the World Series, with players of every stripe and competence. The result is this book, in which Kahn reports on a small college team’s successes and hopes, a young New England ball club, a failing major league franchise, and a group of heroes on the national stage.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 199 pages
• Publisher: Bison Books (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803277938
• ISBN-13: 978-0803277939
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,560,338 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine work from Roger Kahn, July 1, 2007

By	A. Doubleday "grrwoof" (Bridgeport CT USA) - See all my reviews

The other reviewer is a bit confused. Dropping an i or an e is likely the work of a typesetter. Dave Halberstam's mistakes, noted by Bill James, are of a different order. Halberstam writes that in '47 Jackie Robinson ran wild against Yogi Berra, leading Berra to ask to be turned into an outfielder. Actual fact: during the 1947 World Series Robinson stole a total of one (uno) base, while Berra was catching. As for Scully's first name, he and Mr. Kahn were both covering the Dodgers in the 1950s and one does best to assume Mr. Kahn called him Vince.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not Kahn's best work, June 8, 2007

By	M. Johnson (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In this book, Roger Kahn writes about the 1976 season he spent traveling the globe in search of baseball stories of all kinds. In Siloam Springs, Oklahoma he finds ex-Dodger Wally Moon coaching a baseball at a small college. Kahn heads to Los Angeles to meet with the O'Malleys. Walter O'Malley gives Kahn the reason as to why the Dodgers moved to L.A. Kahn also spends time in Puerto Rico watching children aspiring to be major leaguers play. Perhaps the most enjoyable chapter is "William the Unconquerable" where Kahn discusses his time with Bill Veeck and his difficult time trying to reenter Major League Baseball.

What I found rather amusing in Kahn's afterword was him getting on David Halberstam for a factual error in Halberstam's "Summer of '49." Why I found it amusing was because in the text of his chapter on Johnny Bench he spells Bench's soon to be ex-wife Vickie's name two different ways, "Vickie" and "Vicki." Which is it, Roger? He also refers to Vin Scully as "Vince." As readers of Kahn will already suspect, he does spend some time talking about himself as well.

All in all, while it's not Kahn's best work, it's worth a read.