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The Boys of Summer
The Boys of Summer | Roger Kahn
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DIV This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience. /div
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ChelseaM6010
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#TemptingTitles
Day5. With A Season
#WithASeason

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🌞 👍🏻📚 2y
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#SongsofSummer @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#BoysofSummer

I always associate baseball with summer. Since I am in NYC I thought the background was appropriate.

Leftcoastzen That book is so good! 5y
OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 😎 5y
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CouronneDhiver Leafs! 💙 7y
TheKidUpstairs @CouronneDhiver My husband's a huge fan. I will occasionally tell him I'm a Habs fan just to get a rise out of him. I'm not super into hockey, but this year's Leafs did make it fun to watch! 7y
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bookwrm526
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Had to interrupt my reason for a little Minor League baseball!!! The season is almost over :(

brendanmleonard Enjoy! 8y
sprainedbrain I ❤️ baseball!! 8y
bookwrm526 @sprainedbrain me too!! This is a single A game, the Columbia Fireflies 8y
sprainedbrain @bookwrm526 I live just close enough to a triple A, single A, and MLB stadium that I get to take in plenty of baseball every season. 😍 8y
bookwrm526 @sprainedbrain we have had a triple-A team nearby for a while, this is the Fireflies' inaugural season...but the closest majors are the Braves 8y
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Carissa-Green-Reads
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Jane says, "Read a baseball book every summer."

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SusanInTiburon
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For you, @Yossarian: Out on the road today/ I saw a "Billionaires Can't Buy Bernie" sticker on a Bentley convertible/ A little voice inside my head said/ "Is that a vote for Bernie? Or not?"

Yossarian The shocking part is that someone would put a bumper sticker of any kind on their Bentley. 8y
Sweettartlaura My question would be: Do you know because you tried? 😏 8y
BkClubCare Maybe somebody else put that bumper sticker on the car? Perhaps it has yet to be noticed by the driver? 8y
dairine Yossarian! Right!?! 8y
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Yossarian
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"Out on the road today/ I saw a Ben Carson sticker on a Toyota Prius/ A little voice inside my head said/ 'What the heck Toyota Prius guy!?!'" -- Don Henley, I think

BlueMonday42 A Ben Carson sticker on a Prius is like a Volvo with a gun rack. 8y
BookishFeminist I think I've seen more Reagan bumper stickers this election cycle than I have for all the other Republican candidates combined. (And no, I'm not being facetious. Never change, DC.) 8y
CAGirlReading Or a Maserati with a "Feel the Bern" sticker...that's SF 8y
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Mamashep No doubt! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa People never cease to amaze me. 8y
GuiltyFeat Love Don Henley's Boys of Summer AND Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer. 8y
McFarchie Haha 8y
Kittyvankat Lmao!!! Now I'll have that song stuck in my head all day!! 8y
LibrarianToujours In 2003 I saw one for George W that said "The W stands for Women." ? 8y
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