The Boys of Summer - Signed by 15 of the Dodgers’ ‘Boys of Summer’ - Roger Kahn 1972 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition ‘…a novelistic tale of conflict and change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia… No book is better at showing how sports is not just games.’ – Sports Illustrated [Top 100 Sports Books of All Time]

First edition of prolific sportswriter Roger Kahn’s seminal, beloved baseball book, a poignant and nostalgic chronicle of his years assigned to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers for The New York Tribune, and featuring his accounts of some of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the ongoing racial struggles of Jackie Robinson who broke the game’s colour barrier in 1947, and his own memories of the ‘boys’ of Ebbets Field.

Signed by the following Dodgers’ ‘Boys of Summer’: Sandy Amoros, Buzzie Bavasi (General Manager), Joe Becker (pitching coach), Joe Black, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Carl ‘Skoonj’ Furillo, Sandy Koufax, Clem Labine, Tom Lasorda, Billy Loes, Johnny Padres, Pee Wee Reese, Vin Scully (broadcaster) and Ben Wade.

Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs of players and moments from some of baseball’s most memorable games. More Details

Price: HK$ 30,000




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