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A Season in the Sun by Roger Kahn [Kahn, Roger] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Season in the Sun about?

For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talk to some of its practitioners and veterans, and try to find out whether it still the same old magic. His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to make the Majors, to Houston for a look at the financial disaster of the Astros and the Astrodome, and to Los Angeles to explore the modern miracle of Walter O’Malley’s Dodgers. It brought him interviews with old friends like restaurateur Stan Musial, boat salesman Early Wynn, and the courageous baseball maverick Bill Veeck, now owner of the Chicago White Sox. He was able to observe a superb New England Class A team that plays to empty stands because of TV, and the phenomenon of baseball enthusiasm on Roberto Clemente’s Caribbean island. Finally, it gave him the chance to get to know the incomparable Johnny Bench and to spend part of the 1976 Yankees-Reds World Series in the company of the Series’ most valuable player.A SEASON IN THE SUN is more than a book about baseball. Like Roger Kahn’s classic THE BOYS OF SUMMER, it is a warm and affectionate evocation of small-town and big-town Ame

Who reads A Season in the Sun?

Author

Roger Kahn [Kahn, Roger]

Publisher

Diversion Books : Made available through hoopla

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319112398

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Science, Sports

Rating

3.57 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14