That is not a path on which many double back.” “To disregard color, even for an instant, is to step away from the old prejudices, the old hatred. But for an instant he had accepted Robinson simply as a hometown ball player,” Kahn once wrote. “By applauding Robinson, a man did not feel that he was taking a stand on school integration, or on open housing. He wrote at length about Robinson and his struggles in breaking baseball’s color line, and the two formed a long friendship.

Kahn’s sports writing often incorporated social issues, particularly race. He also wrote for Esquire, Time and Sports Illustrated. In 1956 he was named sports editor at Newsweek magazine, and he served at the Saturday Evening Post from 1963 to 1969 as editor at large. Signed by Author and 27 Player.He started writing about the Dodgers in 1952 and by 26 was the newspaper’s prominent sports reporter, earning a salary of $10,000 and also covering the city’s other baseball teams, the Giants and Yankees. Jacket in Good+ condition edge wear and some small tears, primarily around the head and feet of the spine, hinges, and flap folds. Mild sunning to bottoms of boards, and minor soiling/darkening of boards.

Two spots of miniscule fraying- one by the rear top edge near the outer edge, the other at the bottom of the rear corner. Book in VG- condition with a 1/2' wide bump on the top of the front board by the hinge. Included is a program and pass for the three day Jackie Robinson Conference at LIU Brooklyn in April 1997, where my father collected many of the signatures in this volume. Signed by Roger Kahn and 27 players: Stan Musial, Rex Barney, Cal Abrams, Joe Black, Mickey Owen, Tommy Holmes, Bobby Thompson, Johnny Podres, Ralph Branca, Enos Slaughter, Rube Walker, Bob Feller, Buck O'Neil, Joe Pignatano, Vic Lombardi, Clem Labine, Shotgun Shuba, Jim Romano, Gene Hermanski, Billy Loes, Paul Minner, Bobby Bragan, Tommy Henrich, Luis Olmo, Al Gionfriddo, Buddy Hassett, and Eddie Miksis, plus Stan Strull (the Dodgers' batboy and clubhouse assistant).

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn