# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-kahn
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:34:13.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-kahn"
name: "Roger Kahn"
slug: "roger-kahn"
description: "Roger Kahn was an American journalist and author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer."
tagline: "American writer (1927–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Roger_Kahn_Headshot.JPG/330px-Roger_Kahn_Headshot.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1927-10-31"
deathDate: "2020-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.48
  momentum:             0.124223602484472
  historical:           8.362673333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://rogerkahn.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Roger Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "روجر كان (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "روجر خان (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Roger Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Roger Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Roger Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Roger Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Roger Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Kahn"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3439135"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump