31 Quotes by Roger Kahn

You may glory in a team triumphant, ... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

I see the boys of summer in their ruin.

So this is the first book I've written with a title supplied by a major league ballplayer,

Aware, but unself-conscious, Reese and Robinson came to personify integration. If a man didn't like what they personified, why, he better not play for the Dodgers.

A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.

They lost, and they lost in unusual ways.

I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.