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1927–2020 United States
Roger Kahn (31 October 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his writings on baseball and for his 1972 memoir, The Boys of Summer. A Sports Illustrated panel selected The Boys of Summer as the greatest of all baseball books.
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The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.
One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.
Being and writing, the road asked nothing more.
In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.
No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.
I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes.
The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.
Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.
There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.
Is that the minds last, soundless, dying cry? Who will remember? There is no rustling of old crowds as my long, wrenching, joyous voyage ended, only the question, "Who will remember?"
One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.
It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one.
The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.
Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.
At a point of life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.
It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.
He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.
I wonder if anyone always knows-you, me, Jackie Robinson, even Robert Frost-that we will cross to Safety. Or is it rather that when we are There, we think we always knew?
Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.
Nouns and verbs carry writing.
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