Roger Kahn. First edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket designed by the great Paul Bacon. Some chipping on spine and blemish on front cover. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1972. Light yellow cloth with grey border and silver lettering on cover and spine. No writing or markings in the book, 442 pp.
A baseball classic! Kahn looks at the Brooklyn Dodgers and the star players of the 1950's and baseball as it grew from the 1930's to the 1970's. He grew up right near Ebbets Field.
A Sports Illustrated panel named this title 2nd on "The Top 100 Best Sports Books of All Time": "A baseball book the same way Moby Dick is a fishing book, this account of the early-'50's Brooklyn Dodgers is, by turns, a novelistic tale of conflict and change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia and, finally, a tragedy, as the franchise's 1958 move to Los Angeles takes the soul of Brooklyn with it."
