THE BOYS OF SUMMER by Kahn, Roger - 1972

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 442 p. Numerous textual photographs. A masterpiece of sports literature, chronicling the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience. Octavo. Original beige and light blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Internally crisp and clean. Light wear to the dust jacket, with a faint stain to the rear panel; otherwise very good or better.