Roger Kahn, the writer who wove memoir and baseball and touched millions of readers through his romantic account of the Brooklyn Dodgers in "The Boys of Summer," has died. The author of 20 books and hundreds of articles, Kahn was best known for the 1972 best-seller that looked at his relationship
1 / 2Obit Roger Kahn BaseballFILE- In this April 25, 1997, file photo, Author Roger Kahn, author of the bestseller"The Boys of Summer", poses at his home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Kahn, the writer who wove memoir and baseball and touched millions of readers through his romantic account of the Brooklyn Dodgers died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, at a nursing facility in Mamaroneck, N.Y., according to his son Gordon Kahn. He was 92. MAMARONECK, N.Y.
"At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams," Kahn wrote. Story continuesScully said Kahn singularly distilled the essence of what it was like to be a Brooklyn player and fan of the team.
Hearing what the book was about — it was “The Boys of Summer” — Erskine spurred Kahn by invoking the name of a prominent New York newspaper writer from the Brooklyn era.Erskine said he and Kahn stayed in touch over time, from letters in past days to emails in more recent times. Kahn’s sports writing often drew on social issues, particularly race. He wrote at length about Robinson and his struggles in breaking baseball's color line, and the two formed a long friendship.
One book caused lasting embarrassment: Kahn collaborated with Pete Rose on the 1989 authorized autobiography"Pete Rose: My Story." Rose, the major league’s all-time hits leader, had recently been barred from baseball for betting on games and the book featured his insistence that the allegations were untrue.
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