In anticipation of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, I finally read Roger Kahn’s classic baseball book The Boys of Summer. It chronicles, in part, the Dodgers’ 1952 season that ended with New York beating Brooklyn in a seven-game World Series. With Jackie Robinson, Joe Black, Roy Campanella, and others, that generation of Dodgers racially integrated Major League Baseball as the culture of the National Pastime changed in many ways.
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