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Esteemed baseball writer Roger Kahn's Memories of Summer makes a fine companion to his earlier classic,The Boys of Summer. Both books plow similar soil--Kahn's roots in Brooklyn and his years covering the Dodgers with fertile prose--but the similarities end there. The new volume, subtitled "When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game," foregoes its predecessor's route of wistful melancholy and broken dreams for the exhilaration of the sport itself. Kahn focuses his considerable powers on the ways baseball permeated America's post-World War II ethos, and why, in an era less blemished by cynicism, baseball blossomed into a writer's playing field. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The New York Times Book Review, Allen Barra
By focusing on the game rather than the players--or, rather, by focusing on the players only to a degree that they were part of the game--journalists like Roger Kahn come closer to producing literature, albeit in a hurry, than any sports-writers we are likely to see again. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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