Spanning half a century, this book is the first comprehensive anthology of 'sliders with social history', writings from the legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn. 'This is my nineteenth book; all my life I've tried to write literature. I am aware that like Stan Musial or Ted Williams at the bat most of the time I've failed. But the critical word is 'try.' That effort has been a wonder of my life' - Roger Kahn, from the prologue. 'Roger Kahn is the best of all with his sweet ear for the cadence of baseball talk' - Donald Hall, "New York Times" Book Review. From the beginning of his career, as a young man reporting on sports for the "New York Herald Tribune", Roger Kahn labored to create literature. After painstaking research and observation, he would sit down at his desk and 'write like hell', working to turn everyday events into art. For the next fifty years, he never stopped. Today, Roger Kahn...
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