![]() Kahn covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald Tribune as a young sportswriter in the early 1950s, and caught up with many of those Dodgers two decades later.Īs Gay Talese, the American author, wrote: “Kathn’s book is marvelous….a splendid historical work. ![]() They were The Boys of Summer as chronicled by Roger Kahn in his book about 13 of those Dodgers and how their lives evolved and changed once they left the game. They played in one of the great old ballparks, Ebbets Field, located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn on the block bound by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Place, McKeever Place, and Montgomery Street.Īnd then, suddenl y, in the middle of the winter of 1958, the Dodgers fled Brooklyn for Los Angeles. The first MLB team to integrate, it’s no coincidence they began their run when Robinson joined the team in 1947. ![]() They were a legendary team, those Dodgers, with players like Jackie Robinson, the captain Pee Reese, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider and many others. They won Brooklyn’s lone World Series against the Yankees in 1955, after seven previous failures in the Fall Classic. ![]() Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils.ĭuring the 10-year period from 1947 to 1956, the Brooklyn Dodgers won six National League two other times they were denied on the final day of the season. ![]()
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