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    A Season in the Sun

    By Roger Kahn

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    About this ebook

    For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talk to some of its practitioners and veterans, and try to find out whether it still the same old magic.

    His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to make the Majors, to Houston for a look at the financial disaster of the Astros and the Astrodome, and to Los Angeles to explore the modern miracle of Walter O’Malley’s Dodgers. It brought him interviews with old friends like restaurateur Stan Musial, boat salesman Early Wynn, and the courageous baseball maverick Bill Veeck, now owner of the Chicago White Sox. He was able to observe a superb New England Class A team that plays to empty stands because of TV, and the phenomenon of baseball enthusiasm on Roberto Clemente’s Caribbean island. Finally, it gave him the chance to get to know the incomparable Johnny Bench and to spend part of the 1976 Yankees-Reds World Series in the company of the Series’ most valuable player.

    A SEASON IN THE SUN is more than a book about baseball. Like Roger Kahn’s classic THE BOYS OF SUMMER, it is a warm and affectionate evocation of small-town and big-town America.

    Praise for Roger Kahn:

    "As a kid, I loved sports first and writing second, and loved everything Roger Kahn wrote. As an adult, I love writing first and sports second, and love Roger Kahn even more." —Pulitzer Prize winner, David Maraniss

    "He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen." —TIME magazine

    "Roger Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business." —Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books

    "Kahn has the almost unfair gift of easy, graceful writing." —BOSTON HERALD
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateOct 28, 2012
    ISBN9781938120428
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    Roger Kahn, a prize-winning author, grew up in Brooklyn, where he says everybody on the boys' varsity baseball team at his prep school wanted to play for the Dodgers. None did. He has written nineteen books. Like most natives of Brooklyn, he is distressed that the Dodgers left. "In a perfect world," he says, "the Dodgers would have stayed in Brooklyn and Los Angeles would have gotten the Mets."

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      Roger Kahn ("The Boys of Summer") is one of the better baseball writers, and this is another good one, a kind of free-ranging tour of baseball in the mid-1970's from the Dodgers and Houston (at that time deep in debt and in danger of folding as a franchise) to Stan Musial, Early Wynn, one of the best players of the black leagues when they were barred from the majors, Bill Veeck, Roberto Clemente's home, Johnny Bench and many others. Kahn has a true affection for baseball, most players, and its place in the American scene, and it shows in his writing.