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The Boys of Summer - The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and What's Happened to Everybody Since - cover

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The Boys of Summer - The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and What's Happened to Everybody Since

Roger Kahn

Narrator Phil Gigante

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

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Summary

This is an audiobook 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 color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is an audiobook 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 an audiobook about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love. 
 
"A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports." -James Michener
Duration: about 15 hours (15:11:13)
Publishing date: 2009-03-19; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2009. Copyright Statment: —