A review by nymfan86
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

4.0

For sheer eloquence, The Boys of Summer, is the best baseball book I've read. The first half of the book focuses on the 1952-53 Brooklyn Dodgers and is among the finest American writing. Kahn evokes the passion and beauty of baseball like no other. His writing puts you right into Ebbets Field. The second half, while still quite good, loses a bit of steam as it focuses on the players in their lives after baseball. For most of the them, the most important aspect of their baseball life was the integration of baseball. It is interesting to hear these men talk about their past lives, but it is the portrayal of those lives in the first half of the book, that make this a baseball classic.