“Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what therapists formerly described as a manic-depressive personality. Now they call the condition bipolar disorder. Roger sometimes telephoned and began the conversation, “You better listen to me, Dad, or you are one dead man.” Then, half an hour later,… — Roger Kahn Copy Share
“Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn’t fun any more, so I’m getting off the ride. Roger” — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer.… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
