The Boys of Summer (book)

This article is about the Roger Kahn book. For other uses, see The Boys of Summer (disambiguation).
The Boys of Summer
Cover to the first edition (Harper & Row, 1972).
AuthorRoger Kahn
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHarper & Row
Publication date
1972
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN0-06-012239-0
OCLC309382

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 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".[1]

  1. ^ Allen Barra, "The two Rogers: Baseball scribes Angell and Kahn spice their memoirs, one with bearnaise sauce and the other with mustard", Chicago Sun-Times, May 14, 2006.