“Boys of Summer” author Roger Kahn dies at 92
He was not on the list.
Roger Kahn, the accomplished author known best for his tale,
“The Boys of Summer,” died Thursday night at the age of 92. His son, Gordon,
told the Associated Press that Kahn passed away at a nursing facility in
Mamaroneck.
Kahn wrote 20 books and countless articles, but his 1972
best-seller about the Brooklyn Dodgers and the love he and his father shared
for the team, was a hit, 15 years after the club moved to Los Angeles. It
alternated between Kahn’s time covering the team in the early 1950s for the
Herald Tribune and 20 years later.
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,” he wrote.
Kahn got his start in 1948 with the Tribune, working as a
copy boy. He began covering the Dodgers, along with the Giants and Yankees, in
1952. He became the sports editor at Newsweek by 1956. He also wrote for
Esquire, Time and Sports Illustrated. Kahn, who also wrote the 2004 book
“October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the
Yankees’ Miraculous Finish in 1978,” and “Joe and Marilyn: A Memory of Love,”
from 1986, was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
He is survived by his son, Gordon, his wife, Katharine Kahn
Johnson, and his daughter, Alissa Kahn Keenan. A funeral will be held Feb. 10
in Katonah, New York.
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