Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780060122393ISBN:0060122390
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Wear on covers with spot of sticker residue. Light edge wear. Tight binding. Some stains and marks. Tanning pages. xxii, 442 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. With photographs of the Boys of Summer then and now. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780060914165ISBN:0060914165
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear & aging to cover, light crease along spine, small mark on bottom edge, stk #2074n9. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780060122393ISBN:0060122390
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Light wear, small tear in top edge of back cover, small piece torn out of top edge of back cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780060122393ISBN:0060122390
Description: Good in Fair jacket. 8vo. {007803} The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn. ISBN 0060122390. Published by Harper & Row in 1972. HARD COVER 8vo History {Book Condition} GOOD {Jacket Condition} FAIR {Jacket Condition Details} darkened, edges heavily worn, chipping, soiling, large tears, heavy creasing, scuffing. {Book Condition Details} Binding: slightly frayed ends, Cover: heavy edge wear, soiling, scuffing, End Papers: label remnants on front free endpaper, price in pencil on front free endpaper, Text ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780451134332ISBN:0451134338
Description: Good. ---402 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
"I loved this book, even though some of Kahn's then-progressive characterizations now seem a little quaint (at best) and condescending (at worst). Good reporting on what Jackie went through, but also interesting to read about what his teammates, rivals etc. thought about integrating baseball."
"A nostalgic read. I was a Dodger fan as a tyke -- my dad brought me into the clubhouse after a game where I met many of the greats -- but switched my allegiance to the Yankees and Mantle when the Dodgers went west."
"I tried to read this book when I was much younger (maybe 8th grade?) and couldn't get through it. Now I know why -- it's not a book for a 13-year-old. It's about aging, and disappointment, and nostalgia, and its very good at exploring these emotions through the lens of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the early 1950s. I enjoyed the baseball very much, and also liked the way Kahn wove in both his own life story and the stories of several players, as athletes and as people. It's striking how much the tale is shot through with race relations in general and the heroism of Jackie Robinson in particular -- even as I learn more and read more I'm still astounded by how fundamental race (and particularly white racism against blacks) has been at so many stages of our nation's history. I think it says something that that was my takeaway about both this book of baseball nostalgia and Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers about our nation's early history...but it's nice in this sad, complicated story to have some real heroes like Robinson fighting to help our country become better."
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