Roger Kahn Quotes

Roger Kahn was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.

✵ 31. October 1927 – 6. February 2020
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Famous Roger Kahn Quotes

“It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6

“In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xii

Roger Kahn Quotes about the game

“No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9

“What did it matter, Babe Ruth or Jersey Joe Stripp? If vector analysis was beyond me, I could still watch a ball game.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 19

“At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 43

Roger Kahn Quotes

“Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 10

“One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6

“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58

“One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xxi

“It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 175

“Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 90

“The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 104

“Being and writing, the road asked nothing more.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 125

“He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xix (See also: Jackie Robinson)

“Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xxi

“The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 64

“There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.”

Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 434
The Boys Of Summer

“Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.”

Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 436
The Boys Of Summer

“The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.”

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 84

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