| Author |
Kahn, Roger.
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| Publication |
New York : Aurum Press, 2013.
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| Description |
1 online resource (623 pages). |
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text file |
| Call # |
eBOOK |
| Series |
Aurum sports classics
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Aurum sports classic.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Dedication; Contents; Lines on the Transpontine Madness; BOOK ONE The Team; 1 The Trolley Car That Ran by Ebbets Field; 2 Ceremonies of Innocence; INTERLUDE I; BOOK TWO The Return; 3 Clem and Jay; 4 The Bishop's Brother; 5 Carl and Jimmy; 6 The Sandwich Man; 7 Black Is What You Make It; 8 The Road to Viola; 9 A Shortstop in Kentucky; 10 The Hard Hat Who Sued Baseball; 11 One Stayed in Brooklyn; 12 Manchild at Fifty; 13 The Duke of Fallbrook; 14 The Lion at Dusk; 15 Billy Alone; INTERLUDE II; Afterwords on the Life of Kings; An Acknowledgment; Copyright |
| Summary |
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of m. |
| Subject |
Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century. |
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Baseball -- United States -- History. |
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Influence. |
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) |
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
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Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre |
Electronic books. |
| Addl. Author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| Related To |
Print version: Kahn, Roger The Boys of Summer New York : Aurum Press,c2013 9781781311783 |
| ISBN |
9781781312070 (electronic bk.) |
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1781312079 (electronic bk.) |
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