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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
I love baseball. Have I ever told you that I love baseball.
This book is two stories. One is part memoir of Kahn as he grew up near Ebbets field as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. The second is about the late 40s, 1950's Brooklyn Dodgers teams that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson, lost 4 World Series to the Yankees from 47-53, and finally won in 55.
Kahn profiles many players of this time. My favorite part is following these players past their playing days. Sometimes we forget players have a life beyond the field.
This book is two stories. One is part memoir of Kahn as he grew up near Ebbets field as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. The second is about the late 40s, 1950's Brooklyn Dodgers teams that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson, lost 4 World Series to the Yankees from 47-53, and finally won in 55.
Kahn profiles many players of this time. My favorite part is following these players past their playing days. Sometimes we forget players have a life beyond the field.
I love baseball. Have I ever told you that I love baseball.
This book is two stories. One is part memoir of Kahn as he grew up near Ebbets field as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. The second is about the late 40s, 1950's Brooklyn Dodgers teams that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson, lost 4 World Series to the Yankees from 47-53, and finally won in 55.
Kahn profiles many players of this time. My favorite part is following these players past their playing days. Sometimes we forget players have a life beyond the field.
This book is two stories. One is part memoir of Kahn as he grew up near Ebbets field as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. The second is about the late 40s, 1950's Brooklyn Dodgers teams that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson, lost 4 World Series to the Yankees from 47-53, and finally won in 55.
Kahn profiles many players of this time. My favorite part is following these players past their playing days. Sometimes we forget players have a life beyond the field.
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medium-paced
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A great snapshot of what baseball means to people and an insight into the lives of professional sportsmen. It's warts and all, and no journalist would get the same access today.
It's strays a little too much into sentimentality on occasion and it's a bit repetitive, but it's an important document; not least because it gives a view into the bigotry that existed in the 1950's.
It's strays a little too much into sentimentality on occasion and it's a bit repetitive, but it's an important document; not least because it gives a view into the bigotry that existed in the 1950's.
I will always enjoy a sports book regardless of how “well” it was written. Baseball is quite nostalgic for me.
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
informative
relaxing
medium-paced
A perfect spring training read — equal parts memoir and baseball book with tons of American history, and human interest stories. It's funny how both this book and Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year both feature the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. Obviously there are still diehard fans of every team, but something hits different in a free agency era where players don't have the same loyalty to one team.
Kahn has a wonderful non-linear way of storytelling that circles back, weaves in, and builds on earlier elements. Not quite 5/5 but definitely rounds up from 4.5+.
This is not a baseball quote per se, but incredible nonetheless: “Many baseball writers took him for a warm friend, without recognizing that, as with an under-boiled potato, O'Malley's warmth was mostly external.”
Kahn has a wonderful non-linear way of storytelling that circles back, weaves in, and builds on earlier elements. Not quite 5/5 but definitely rounds up from 4.5+.
This is not a baseball quote per se, but incredible nonetheless: “Many baseball writers took him for a warm friend, without recognizing that, as with an under-boiled potato, O'Malley's warmth was mostly external.”