Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn is one of America's foremost sportswriters....

The seventh game of the World Series is about to be played, and more than the world championship is at stake. A man’s destiny is on the line....

In these essays bestselling author Roger Kahn touches on locker-room controversies and politics, while inviting readers to share in the passion, grace, energy, and intense concentration involved in playing sports....

In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, from spring training through the World Series, with players of every stripe and competence....

Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Bobby Thomson, Al Rosen, Jascha Heifetz, and other heroic figures in their years of glory....

Good Enough to Dream is the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor league, Utica Blue Sox....

Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood....

The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what's happened to everybody since....

Through most of the '20s, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, he was a fighter perfectly suited to his time....

Celebrated sports writer Roger Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport....

He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was America's blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends....