Books
August, 1977
Roger Kahn's new book about baseball, A Season in the Sun (Harper & Row), grew out of a series of magazine articles he wrote over the course of the 1975 season. His assignment was to capture the state of the game in America, an impossibly broad idea, and he decided the way to approach it was to "consider a winning major-league baseball team ... and match that franchise against a losing ball club.... Go ride the buses of the minors and live with young men who win and lose in solitude.... Loo...