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    The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

     
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    The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

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    "A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s." --New York Times

    The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what's happened to everybody since.

    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 color 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 about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9780060883966
    Edition:
    Reissue
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    512
    Publication date:
    2006-05-09
    Publisher:
    Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780060883966
    Edition:
    Reissue
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    512
    Publication date:
    2006-05-09
    Publisher:
    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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