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
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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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They lost, and they lost in unusual ways.
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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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So this is the first book I've written with a title supplied by a major league ballplayer,
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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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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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I see the boys of summer in their ruin.
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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.
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Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
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Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
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No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.
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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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Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.
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You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.