02949cam a2200373 4500 436401377 TxAuBib 20200907120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062089984 0062089986 B004JN1DGY Amazon c5d92edd-5128-4c3c-8e24-166aaac4df95 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 523397 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer [Libby] : The Classic Narrative of Growing Up within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and What's Happened to Everybody Since. HarperCollins, 2011. baseball. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2817kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><strong>"A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s." —New York Times</strong></p> <p><strong>The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what's happened to everybody since.</strong></p> <p>This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-09-06 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/C5D/92E/DD/BoysofSummer9780062089984.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C5D92EDD-5128-4C3C-8E24-166AAAC4DF95&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/C5D/92E/DD/BoysofSummer9780062089984.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C5D92EDD-5128-4C3C-8E24-166AAAC4DF95&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/C5D/92E/DD/BoysofSummer9780062089984.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C5D92EDD-5128-4C3C-8E24-166AAAC4DF95&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) ALEML