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The Boys of Summer is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series. He then tracks the lives of the players (Clem Labine, George Shuba, Carl Erskine, Andy Pafko, Joe Black, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Billy Cox) over the subsequent years as they aged. The title of the book is taken from a Dylan Thomas poem that describes "the boys of summer in their ruin".

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  • The Boys of Summer, est un témoignage autobiographique du journaliste sportif américain Roger Kahn dans le sillage des Dodgers de Brooklyn. Sorti en 1972, le livre connaît nombre de rééditions, la dernière en date en 2006, pour plus de trois millions d'exemplaires vendus. L'ouvrage est présenté en deux parties. La première, intitulée « Book one: The Team », propose sur 193 pages le témoignage autobiographique de Kahn jusqu'à la couverture de la saison 1955, celle de la victoire des Dodgers en Série mondiale. Après un Interlude de huit pages où il explique notamment la fracture existant entre les Dodgers de Brooklyn et les Dodgers de Los Angeles (« They were not the team » ; p.203), il consacre son chapitre « Book two: The Return » à des portraits des principaux joueurs des Dodgers : Clem Labine (« Clem and Jay »), (« The Bishop's Brother »), (« Carl and Jimmy »), (« The Sandwich Man »), (« Black is what you make it »), (« The Road to Viola »), Pee Wee Reese (« A Shortstop in Kentucky »), Carl Furillo (« The Hard Hat Who Sued Baseball »), (« One Stayed in Brooklyn »), Roy Campanella (« Manchild at Fifty »), Duke Snider (« The Duke of Fallbrook »), Jackie Robinson (« The Lion at Dusk ») et (« Billy Alone »). En 2002, Sports Illustrated publie une liste des cent meilleurs livres sportifs. Parmi cette sélection, The Boys of Summer est deuxième. (fr)
  • The Boys of Summer is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series. He then tracks the lives of the players (Clem Labine, George Shuba, Carl Erskine, Andy Pafko, Joe Black, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Billy Cox) over the subsequent years as they aged. The title of the book is taken from a Dylan Thomas poem that describes "the boys of summer in their ruin". (en)
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  • 0-06-012239-0
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  • 309382
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  • Cover to the first edition . (en)
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  • Harper & Row
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  • The Boys of Summer is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series. He then tracks the lives of the players (Clem Labine, George Shuba, Carl Erskine, Andy Pafko, Joe Black, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Billy Cox) over the subsequent years as they aged. The title of the book is taken from a Dylan Thomas poem that describes "the boys of summer in their ruin". (en)
  • The Boys of Summer, est un témoignage autobiographique du journaliste sportif américain Roger Kahn dans le sillage des Dodgers de Brooklyn. Sorti en 1972, le livre connaît nombre de rééditions, la dernière en date en 2006, pour plus de trois millions d'exemplaires vendus. En 2002, Sports Illustrated publie une liste des cent meilleurs livres sportifs. Parmi cette sélection, The Boys of Summer est deuxième. (fr)
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