Memories of summer
Subtitle: when baseball was an art and writing about it a game
By: Roger Kahn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Kahn, Roger; Sportswriters -- United States -- Biography; Baseball -- United States -- History; Baseball in literature
Description: This joyful memoir of sports and sportswriting - of a time when the writers and the players would spend their days laughing on the road together and their nights drinking in bars together, without a press agent in sight - brings to life the years when baseball was not only the national pastime, but established itself as a symbol of masculinity and grace in America.
Notes: Includes index.