Author: rogerkahn

This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the “Herald … Tribune.” This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind…