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What is to be made of this nostalgic book about the Brooklyn Dodgers? Its title comes from a poem by Dylan Thomas, and its first chapter is called "Lines on the Transpontine Madness." "Transpontine": a very British word meaning that which lies over a bridge, specifically one that crosses the...
This is the sort of pretentiousness one might expect from a New York Giants fan, which 44-year-old Roger Kahn could well have been if he had grown up on Manhattan's Upper West Side instead of a trolley lurch from Ebbets Field. But to Kahn, who covered...
Luckily, Kahn's world of poetry and pop-ups resolved itself on the Herald Tribune, where he was eventually assigned to cover the Dodgers' 1952 and '53 seasons. These were the years when the Dodgers again lost the World Series to the Yankees, when the cry of...
Kahn presents a number of other middle-aged ex-Dodgers in formula pieces that will appeal mainly to those who sang the national anthem along with Gladys Goodding and lost interest in the Dodgers after they went to Los Angeles to become ballplayers to the stars. He also touches a...
Died. Marianne Moore, 84, America's premier poetess and baseball fan; in Manhattan. Born in suburban St. Louis, Miss Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr, taught for a time, but soon discovered her vocation: writing meticulously crafted poems in which, as she once said, "the words simply cluster like chromosomes...