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Roger Kahn

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Author

The Resume

    (October 31, 1927-February 6, 2020)
    Born in Brooklyn, New York
    Sportswriter for the ‘New York Herald Tribune’, features writer for ‘Sports Illustrated,’ sports editor for ‘Newsweek,’ and editor-at-large for ‘The Saturday Evening Post’
    Wrote over 20 books, the best known being ‘The Boys of Summer’ (1972)
    Majority owner of the minor-league Utica Blue Sox (1983)
    Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (2006)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was married three times, divorced twice.
    Bill Veeck observed, ‘Roger Kahn is doomed to go through life having everything he writes compared with ‘The Boys of Summer.’’
    He regretted co-authoring ‘Pete Rose: My Story,’ in which Rose denied placing bets on baseball games.
    When Rose admitted in a later memoir that he had bet on baseball, Kahn said, ‘My first reaction was to reach for the barf bag.’

Why he might not be annoying:

    His son Roger, who suffered from bipolar disorder, committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning (1987).
    During the 1950s, he was the highest-paid sportswriter in New York City, earning $10,000 a year.
    The Washington Post described him as ‘not only a great baseball writer but also something rarer: a great writer whose subject happens to be baseball.’
    ’Sports Illustrated’ placed ‘The Boys of Summer’ #2 on its list of the 100 greatest sports books (2002).
    Don Henley used ‘The Boys of Summer’ for the title of one of his solo hits.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 15 Votes: 26.67% Annoying