KAHN, ROGER

KAHN, ROGER (1927– ), U.S. sportswriter. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Kahn worked at the New York Herald Tribune in the early 1950s covering the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named sports editor at Newsweek in 1956, and editor at large at the Saturday Evening Post from 1963 to 1969 as well as writing freelance magazine essays for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Time, and other publications. His most famous work among 17 books was the 1972 bestseller The Boys of Summer, an account of the Dodger teams of the 1950s and how the players aged 20 years later. He also wrote How The Weather Was (1973); A Season in the Sun (1977); Good Enough to Dream (1985), chronicling the Class A Utica Blue Sox baseball team in the summer of 1983; Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love (1986); the controversial Pete Rose: My Story (1989); The Era: 1947–1957, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World (1993); Games We Used to Play (1994); Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing about It a Game (1997); Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s (1999); Head Game: Baseball Seen From the Pitcher's Mound (2000); and October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 (2003). Kahn also wrote two non-sports books, The Passionate People: What It Means to Be a Jew in America (1968) and The Battle for Morningside Heights: Why Students Rebel (1970), and two novels, But Not to Keep (1979) and The Seventh Game (1982). (Elli Wohlgelernter (2nd ed.)