Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6
Famous Roger Kahn Quotes
Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 438
The Boys Of Summer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xii
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 3
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 55
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 36
Roger Kahn Quotes about the game
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 19
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 43
Roger Kahn Quotes
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
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xxi
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 19
“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
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xi
“Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.”
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 90
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 82
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 30
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
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
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xii
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 64
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xvii
“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
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xx
“The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.”
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 84