The Boys of Summer isn’t quite what you expect. Though it covers the familiar ground of the great Brooklyn Dodger teams of the ’50s, the author’s unique position and the hybrid framework of this memoir create a little gem of a book that is full of the stuff of life. Heartbreak, struggle, accomplishment, valor, friendship, bigotry and death all arising from a child’s game played by adults. Kahn served as the Herald Tribune’s beat reporter for the Dodgers for a few seasons in the early […]