Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of several eras. His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother's passion was for poetry. Somehow, young Roger managed to blend both loves in a career that encompassed writing about sports for theNew York Herald Tribune,Sports Illustrated, theSaturday Evening Post,Esquire, andTime. Kahn recalls the great personalities of a golden era-Leo Durocher, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Red Smith, Dick Young, and many more-and recollects the wittiest lines from forty years in dugouts, press boxes, and newsrooms. Often hilarious, always precise about action on the field and off,Memories of Summeris an enduring classic about how baseball met literature to the benefit of both. Roger Kahn is the author of the classicThe Boys of Summerand is a visiting lecturer on creative writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His booksGood Enough to Dream,A Season in the Sun, andThe Era, 19471957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the Worldare available in Bison Books editions.