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Title: The Summer Game by Roger Angell ISBN: 0140131213 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: The Poet-Lauret of baseball...
Comment: Maybe the best writer that I've ever read and not just about baseball...I must concur with the other reviewers that it's scandelous that this and other Roger Angell books are out of print, especially with all the sub-par writing that is on the market today. Mr. Angell's ability to craft details into a much larger story and tell it with humour and keen insight are amazing to me. Chapter after chapter of this book are combined into one long pleasing account from a fan's perspective that leaves you wishing that it would never end. More than just a season-by-season run-down, Angell provides his views with a unique perspective for each season that goes beyond mere sports reporting and seems to provide a theme that is clever, humerous and poignant. This should be read by every baseball fan to see what real sports-writing is like and I think that you'll agree that all other sports commentary pales by comparison. Highest recommendation.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Summer Game: Roger Angell on baseball
Comment: The subtitle of this book tells it all: "Roger Angell on baseball." The articles collected in "The Summer Game" first appeared in "The New Yorker" from 1962-72. Angell is not only a first-rate writer but a true fan of the game. He writes about the rise of California baseball, the wonderful world of expansion including the comical and agonizing sufferings of the Amazin' Mets, the fall of the mighty New York Yankees, baseball in French (Montreal's Expos), baseball indoors (the Houston Astrodome), baseball in the spring, baseball during the winter hot-stove league, and the Miracle Mets of 1969. Many of the articles focus on the World Series, so fans of the Dodgers, Cardinals and Orioles will enjoy their double triumphs within this period, while the Tigers and Pirates will remember their classic seven-game Series, and the Red Sox fans will have to endure with having come ever so close. There is humor in these writings, but there is also affection, so when Angell expresses his bitterness over the arrogance and greed that threatened to overwhelm the game he loves he speaks for all of us. Yes, it is insane that the writing of Roger Angell or Red Smith or any of the other great sportswriters of the last century are out of print. They do not need to be preserved on the internet, they need to be in print on paper.
Rating: 5
Summary: I cannot believe this book is out of print.
Comment: The fact that this book (and Mr. Angell's other remarkable books about baseball) is out of print disturbs me on two levels. As a baseball fan, I have found these books to be an invaluable source of comfort during the long winter months when our game goes into hybernation. As a reader, I have found in these volumes beautiful writing and keen insight, something that is so often lacking in what passes for journalism today. Mr. Angell (longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker) writes about baseball as a fan, and he does so for fans. Real fans - those of us who recognize that a double and a single are preferable to a home run, those that marvel at a right fielder's gorgeous one-hop throw to third to nip the sliding runner, those that hurt just a little bit during rain delays. If, by some wild stretch of the imagination the publisher of the Summer Game (I don't remember who it was right off) reads this, I think a single collection of the best of Angell's baseball writings is in order - if not a re-pressing of all.
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Title: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell ISBN: 0671227432 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: May, 1977 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader by Roger Angell ISBN: 1566633710 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell ISBN: 0395381657 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn ISBN: 0060956348 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Late Innings: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell ISBN: 0345309367 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: April, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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