A review by sdibartola
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

4.0

I just finished “The Boys of Summer” by Roger Kahn. Many say it’s one of the best baseball books of all time, but it’s much more. It’s the autobiography of a boy from Brooklyn who loved the Dodgers and found himself reporting on the team for the Herald Tribune as a young man. It’s about life after baseball as Kahn tracks down and follows up on the lives of the players he got to know, including Clem Labine, Cark Erskine, Carl Furillo, “Preacher” Roe, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, and especially Jackie Robinson. The lives of these men after the glorious days of their youth were filled with challenges and in some cases tragedy. So, really this book is about the hard road of life itself. Highly recommended – even if you’re not an old Dodgers fan like myself.