Boys Of Summer Reading Order

1 series · 3 books

Roger Kahn is a sports journalist and author best known for his classic baseball memoir that chronicles both his own coming of age in Brooklyn and the legendary careers of the 1955 World Series champion Dodgers. His narrative weaves together personal memoir with baseball history, following the lives and struggles of iconic players as they moved beyond their playing days. Kahn's work pioneered the sports biography genre by treating athletes as fully realized human subjects rather than mere statistics, establishing him as one of the most influential baseball writers of the twentieth century.