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Beyond the boys of summer : the very best of Roger Kahn
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Beyond the boys of summer : the very best of Roger Kahn

Author: Roger Kahn; Robert Miraldi
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Spanning half a century, this first comprehensive anthology presents a showcase of 50 years worth of Kahn's celebrated work to a new generation of sports fans--from a 1955 article on the incomparable Jackie Robinson to excerpts from his recent bestselling book on the controversial '78 Yankees.
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Genre/Form: Miscellanea
Material Type: Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Roger Kahn; Robert Miraldi
ISBN: 007144727X 9780071447270 9780071481199 0071481192
OCLC Number: 56982088
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxxvi, 364 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Prologue : the wonder of writing --
Introduction : "sliders with social history" --
Pt. I. Growing up and being young --
Ch. 1. A father, a son, and baseball in Brooklyn --
Ch. 2. Coming of age --
Ch. 3. And then there is sex --
Ch. 4. The dreams of the young --
Ch. 5. Restless youth : the Columbia uprising --
Ch. 6. Kareem arrives --
Pt. II. Living your life --
Ch. 7. The base : father of the home run --
Ch. 8. The homer heard round the world --
Ch. 9. Roger Maris : the ordeal of his success --
Ch. 10. Henry Aaron : a success story --
Ch. 11. The great cork crime --
Pt. III. Willie, Mickey, Duke : the New York center fielders --
Ch. 12. The "say hey kid" up close --
Ch. 13. The Mick on and off the field
Responsibility: Roger Kahn ; edited by Rob Miraldi.
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Features the best of Roger Kahn's newspaper and magazine work, as well as selected excerpts from his books.  Read more...

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