I assume he was the last of The Boys of Summer

The "catching up with" Erskine part of Roger Kahn's classic is touching - Erskine and his wife devoting their lives to their son Jimmy who had Down Syndrome.

Jimmy died last fall. I'm going to guess these last six months were the only days in the last 60 years Carl did not worry how his son would be after he died.

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He was the last, yes - sprack 2024-04-16 17:21:33
I didn't know that about Erskine. - G.K.Chesterton 2024-04-16 16:12:10
- it's an outstanding book - jt 2024-04-16 16:49:35
  - I thought it was just okay. - tdiddy07 2024-04-16 21:01:26
    - if you like Ball Four - jt 2024-04-17 13:59:19
      - Thanks. I'll add it to the list. * - tdiddy07 2024-04-18 09:10:17
      - Ball Four was better - sprack 2024-04-17 16:41:13
        Oh, I think that Ball Four is the gold standard - jt 2024-04-17 16:59:42
        I still recall Schultz, Talbot & Pepitone stories from... - Scoop80 2024-04-17 17:18:58
        And of course you recall Joe Schultz's two favorite words - sprack 2024-04-17 17:54:07
        Ah, but his sitting on birthday cakes - sprack 2024-04-17 17:14:26
        An 8th grade classmate laughed so hard that he literally... - Scoop80 2024-04-17 17:22:36
    - As a kid, I enjoyed Gaylord Perry's book. - G.K.Chesterton 2024-04-16 23:08:28
    - “I see the boys of summer in their ruin” - Father Nieuwland 2024-04-16 22:31:51
  - When I was a kid playing ball myself I liked the parts about - Father Nieuwland 2024-04-16 17:07:46
    - I guess I was the opposite - jt 2024-04-16 18:04:30
      - I remember the Furillo chapter particularly well - sprack 2024-04-16 18:13:15
        No kind of about it - jt 2024-04-17 14:00:09
    - We had a similar view of that book as kids * - Scoop80 2024-04-16 17:44:30