From Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game, the famed baseball writer offers his favorite dozen reads, including:
- Nice Guys Finish Last by Leo Durocher with Ed Linn (Simon and Schuster, 1975).
- (Co-winner) Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (Alfred A. Knopf, 1956).
- The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter (Macmillan, 1966).
- Baseball America by Donald Honig (Macmillan, 1985).
- A False Spring by Pat Jordan (Dodd, Mead, 1975).
- Lords of the Realm by John Helyar (Ballantine Books, 1995).
- Cobb, a Biography by Al Stump (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1996).
- A Whole Different Ball Game (Simon and Schuster, 1991).
- Any collection of pieces by John Lardner or Red Smith.
- Fathers Playing Catch with Sons by Donald Hall (Farrar, Straus, 1984).
- Man on Spikes by Eliot Asinof (McGraw Hill, 1955).
For a deeper explanation by Kahn, read this piece that appeared in the New York Times in April, 1997. Kahn appeared on the MacNeil-Lerner NewsHour that month to discuss his latest work.
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