In The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn looks back on his years covering the Brooklyn Dodgers in the early 1950s and the lives the players built after the team left Brooklyn. The book moves between the ballpark and later visits with former stars and role players, tracing how memory, fame, and regret settle over time. Kahn’s writing is attentive to race, class, and neighborhood as much as to box scores, making this as much a portrait of mid‑century America as a baseball book.

WHY WE PICKED IT
Because it is one of the touchstone baseball books that still reads as literature. The Boys of Summer is a strong pick for readers interested in sports writing that is really about people, place, and the passage of time.

DETAILS
• Author: Roger Kahn
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: May 9, 2006
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780060883966
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