Angell, Roger.
Summary: "The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. It goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche." "Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition - marked by league...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Contents: On the ball -- Starting to belong -- Buttercups rampant -- Stories for a rainy afternoon -- Season lightly -- Three for the Tigers -- Mets redux -- Landscape, with figures -- How the West was won -- Sunny side of the street -- Gone for good -- The companions of the game -- Agincourt and after -- In the counting house -- Scout -- Cast a cold eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004