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I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Good Enough to Dream

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, tha...

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Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great s...

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The Boys of Summer

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. ...

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The Boys of Summer

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

Good Enough to Dream

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Roger Kahn

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Born: 1927-10-31

Died: N/A

Roger Kahn (31 October 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his writings on baseball and for his 1972 memoir, The Boys of Summer. A Sports Illustrated panel selected The Boys of Summer as the greatest of all baseball books.More