“One did not go to Ebbets Field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction, and a wonder of the sociological Brookln Dodgers was the excitement of their play.”

—  Roger Kahn

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

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American baseball writer 1927–2020

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