The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Sat, May 01, 2010
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." As beautifully written and touching as the story is, it had special meaning to our reviewer, Miles Klein, who too lived in Brooklyn, relatively close to Ebbets Field, and even attended the same college as did author Kahn, and probably around the same time.
