The world is never again as it was before anyone you love h… - Roger Kahn

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The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do.

Roger Kahn

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Roger Kahn (31 October 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his writings on baseball and for his 1972 memoir, The Boys of Summer. A Sports Illustrated panel selected The Boys of Summer as the greatest of all baseball books.

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That morning began with wind and hairy clouds. It was late March and the day rose brisk and uncertain, with gusts suggesting January and flashes of sun promising June. In every way, a season of change had come.

Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.

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