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Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty he perishes as an athlete. Although he looks trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual coordination, the superlative reflexes, the major league reflexes, pass on. At a point when many of his classmates are newly confident and rising in other fields, he finds that he can no lomger hit a very good fast ball or reach a grounder four strides to his right. At thirty-five he is is experiencing the truth of finality. As his major league career is ending, all things will end. However he sprang, he was always earthbound. Mortality embraces him. The golden age has passed in a moment. So will all things. So will all moments.
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That morning began with wind and hairy clouds. It was late March and the day rose brisk and uncertain, with gusts suggesting January and flashes of sun promising June. In every way, a season of change had come.
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Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.
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One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.
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Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.
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The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.
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He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.
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Born:
October 31, 1927
Died:
February 6, 2020
(aged 92)
Bio:
Roger Kahn was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
Known for:
The Boys of Summer (1972)
A Season In The Sun (1977)
Good enough to dream (1985)
The Era, 1947-1957 (1993)
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