
Game Time
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Roger Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in a prose style as admired and envied as Ted Williams's swing. Here is Angell on Fenway Park in September, on Bob Gibson brooding in retirement, on Tom Seaver in mid-windup, on the abysmal early and recent Mets, on a scout at work in backcountry Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez, on the astounding Barry Bonds at Pac Bell Park, and more.
With twenty-nine essays divided between spring, summer, and fall, Game Time carries readers through the arc of the season with refreshed understanding and pleasure. With an introduction by Richard Ford, this collection represents Angell's best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002.
A New York Times Notable Book
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Person
Roger Angell (b. 1920) is a celebrated New Yorker writer and editor. First published in the magazine in 1944, he became a fiction editor and regular contributor in 1956; and remains as a senior editor and staff writer. In addition to seven classic books on baseball, which include The Summer Game (1972) , Five Seasons (1977) , and Season Ticket (1988) , he has written works of fiction, humor, and a memoir, Let Me Finish (2006). He edited the short story collection Nothing But You: Love Stories from The New Yorker(1997). In 2011, he was awarded the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Angell lives in New York City.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- Spring
- The Old Folks Behind Home
- Sunny Side of the Street
- Easy Lessons
- Takes: Waltz of the Geezers
- Put Me In, Coach
- Takes: Digging Up Willie
- For Openers
- Takes: Pride
- Let Go, Mets
- Summer
- Early Innings
- The Companions of the Game
- Scout
- Distance
- The Web of the Game
- Takes: Penmen
- Takes: Payback
- Wings of Fire
- The Bard in the Booth
- Style
- Takes: Three Petes
- Fall
- Takes: Jacksonian
- Blue Collar
- Takes: The Confines
- Ninety Feet
- One for the Good Guys
- Legends of the Fens
- Can You Believe It?
- Takes: The Purist
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- About the Author
- Copyright
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