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"A ... narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, working for the Herald Tribune in the Jackie Robinson years ... and what's happened to everybody since."
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Nostalgic, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Roger Kahn
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- New American Library, HarperPerennial, Perennial
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060956349
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