The Roger Kahn reader : six decades of sportswriting / Roger Kahn ; edited and with an introduction by Bill Dwyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahn, Roger, author.

Contributor:

Dwyre, Bill, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--United States.

Sports.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

Short stories.

Sports writing.

Physical Description:

xxii, 377 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Summary:

"A rich collection of fifty-one stories and articles by Roger Kahn. Written across six decades, this volume shows Kahn's ability to describe the athletes he profiled as they truly were in a manner neither compromised nor cruel but always authentic and up close"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An American tragedy

A death without sunlight: Jackie Robinson Jr. / Esquire, November 1971 part 2

When Eisenhower reigned

Joe Black's odyssey / New York Herald Tribune, June 8, 1952

What white big leaguers really think of Negro players / Our sports, June 1953

The twilight of the gods / Sports Illustrated, September 20, 1954

Baseball 1954 / Sports Illustrated, October 4, 1954

Here's tap day / Sports Illustrated, November 22, 1954

Forget something, boys? / Sports Illustrated, December 20, 1954

New York proudly presents / Sports Illustrated, September 27, 1954

1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . & bingo / Sports Illustrated, October 11, 1954

Glory day in Columbus / Sports Illustrated, November 29, 1954

Alonzo, Alonzo / Sports Illustrated, January 10, 1955

Big Newk and his psyche / Sport, August 1955

Early Wynn: the story of a hard loser / Sport, March 1956

The Boswells of baseball / The Nation, September 7, 1957

Stan Musial is baseball's no. 1 citizen / Sport, February 1958

Little Nellie's a man now / Sport, April 1958

Rookie of the year [fiction] / Cosmopolitan, June 1958

How the other half lives / Sport, October 1958

The crucial part fear plays in sport / Sport, August 1959

Changing times

The benching of a legend / Sports Illustrated, September 12, 1960

Success and Ned Irish /Sports Illustrated, March 27, 1961

Baseball's secret weapon: terror / Sports Illustrated, July 10, 1961

Pursuit of no. 60: the ordeal of Roger Maris / Sports Illustrated, October 2, 1961

Robert Frost: a reminiscence / The Nation, February 9, 1963

The time of the hustler / Show Magazine, October 1963

Getting closer

Writing sports / Esquire, August 1970

The life and hard times of Jim Bouton / Esquire, December 1970

The Mick / Esquire, May 1971

Roy Emerson / Esquire, June 1971

Bob Gibson / Esquire, July 1971

Scuba diving /Esquire, January 1974

A shrine in Brooklyn / Sports Illustrated, August 5, 1974

Cheer, cheer for old Ezra Pound / Esquire, November 1974

The good and bad times of Don King / Esquire, November 1975

George Foreman is down but not out / Esquire, May 1976

Aspects of the game / Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1976

A baseball sketchbook / Sports Illustrated, August 23, 1976

Golden triumphs, tarnished dreams / Sports Illustrated, August 30, 1976

Walter O'Malley in the sunshine / New York Times, January 9, 1978

Some modest proposals / New York Times, February 13, 1978

The joy of Bill Veeck / New York Times, April 3, 1978

Public relations / New York Times, July 31, 1978

Jim Lonborg at thirty-seven / New York Times, April 2, 1979

A visit with Red Smith / Notre Dame Magazine, December 1979

My movie option: eight years of strikeouts / New York Times, May 4, 1980

Lafleur (the flower of Canada) / Sport, December 1981

Dodger verities span the seasons / New York Times, October 6, 1985

A new millennium

Joe Black, 1924-2002: hard thrower, soft heart / Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2002

Scorecard: mind over batter / Sports Illustrated, December 8, 2003

A few moments with TSW / Boston Red Sox Magazine, June 2007

Clem / an original story.

ISBN:

9780803294721

0803294727

OCLC:

1009183214