Roger Kahn, whose book 'Boys of Summer' is widely and correctly considered to be one of the greatest sports books every written, died Thursday at the age of 92.
From Bruce Weber's obituary in The New York Times:
While Mr. Angell’s elegant essays were contemporaneous reports on the game, Mr. Kahn seized on techniques of the so-called new journalism; for one thing, he became a character in his own narrative. And with a title taken from a Dylan Thomas poem, he turned his book into a meditation on fathers and sons, the passage of time, teamwork, civil rights and the nature of men — themes so seductive and enduring that in connection with baseball they ring as clichés today.