ROGER KAHN is the author of twenty books including the classic bestseller, The Boys of Summer. A former reporter for The New York Herald Tribune, Kahn has contributed to magazines such as Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Time, and The Saturday Evening Post. He lives in Stone Ridge, NY.
“Much has been written about Jackie Robinson and much has been
written about Branch Rickey. But, thanks to the legendary Roger
Kahn, we are granted front-row access to the inner workings of a
fascinating--and historic--relationship. Like its author, Rickey &
Robinson is a treasure.” —Jeff Pearlman, bestselling author of
Showtime and The Bad Guys Won
“Roger Kahn's classic, The Boys of Summer, changed my life--that
and Catcher in the Rye were the two books that made me dream of
becoming a writer. Now, Roger returns to the Brooklyn Dodgers to
breathe new life into the two familiar men who changed baseball
and, in their own way, America. I thought I knew everything there
was to know about Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson but, not
surprisingly, I'm still learning from Roger Kahn.” —Joe Posnanski,
bestselling author of The Soul of Baseball and The Machine,
national columnist for NBC Sports
“Branch Rickey signed me in 1946, a few months after his historical
signing of Jackie Robinson. Jackie and I were teammates with the
Dodgers for nine wonderful seasons, including the 1955 World
Championship season later memorialized in Roger Kahn's masterpiece,
The Boys of Summer. But Mr. Rickey's and Jackie's baseball
accomplishments pale in comparison to the cultural impact they had
on America, an impact that reverberates to this day. Roger knew
both men well. Read his words and you will, too.” —Carl Erskine,
Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, 1948-1959
“If you think you know the full Branch Rickey-Jackie Robinson
story, you don't. And you won't until you read Roger Kahn's Rickey
& Robinson, which tells the tale in new, vivid, unvarnished ways.
This, at last, is the definitive account.” —Will Leitch, author of
Are We Winning?, senior writer for Sports On Earth and founder of
Deadspin
“Kahn's offering stands apart with its wealth of personal
information and observations that the veteran sportswriter must
have kept in his notebooks for decades.” —The Boston Globe
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