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

Roger Kahn

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

Partnership

“In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand who sensed that it was an exalted manly thing to catch a ball with one hand thrust across your body and make a crowd leap to its feet and cheer.”

Roger Kahn

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

God , Spring , Boy , Sense

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

Roger Kahn

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

“Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty he perishes as an athlete. Although he looks trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual coordination, the superlative reflexes, the major league reflexes, pass on. At a point when many of his classmates are newly confident and rising in other fields, he finds that he can no longer hit a very good fast ball or reach a grounder four strides to his right. At thirty-five he is is experiencing the truth of finality. As his major league career is ending, all things will end. However he sprang, he was always earthbound. Mortality embraces him. The golden age has passed in a moment. So will all things. So will all moments.”

Roger Kahn

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

Death , Truth , Age , Feeling