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9780071481199
"For baseball's characteristic stories, Roger Kahn is the best of all with his sweet ear for the cadence of baseball talk." --New York Times Book Review "Roger Kahn has been a longtime and admirable chronicler of the American experience." --Gay Talese "Beyond the Boys of Summer is an absolute joy to read. It is a book that all lovers of sports and literature should have in their library." --Bill Walton, ABC/ESPN, Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame "Roger Kahn is one of the most eloquent sportswriters ever." --John Mark Eberhart, Knight Ridder newspapers "Pick any piece at random, and one is immediately thrust into another place and time. This is the stuff that memories are made of." --Bill Eichenberger, Columbus Dispatch Sit alongside Mickey Mantle in a Texas bar. Get to know the often-prickly Jackie Robinson as few ever did. Through the words of Roger Kahn, the greatest sportswriter of his generation, you'll see sports legends such as Muhammad Ali, Pete Rose, George Steinbrenner, and many others as you never have before.Kahn, Roger is the author of 'Beyond the Boys of Summer The Very Best of Roger Kahn', published 2006 under ISBN 9780071481199 and ISBN 0071481192.
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