(New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972).

FIRST EDITION, CLUB ISSUE. Roger Kahn's great book about the men who learned to play baseball during the 1930's and 1940's in such places as Reading, Pennsylvania; Anderson, Indiana; Plainfield, New Jersey; Woonsocket, Rhode Island; and then went on to play for one of the most exciting professional teams that the major leagues ever fielded, the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950's--the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson and set many other records besides.
It's also a book about the reporter who grew up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, was nurtured on Joyce and Shakespeare and had the good forture in the 1950's to cover the Dodgers for the New York Tribune.
And its a book about what's happened since to Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella and Carl Furillo and the others.
A famous book whose tributes are well earned and a great read. Item #33927

First Edition, Club Issue. With illustrations from photographs. 8vo, publisher's original cream and gray cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in silver. xxii, 442 pp. A bright and clean copy. The dustjacket with only minimal rubbing at the extremities.