Late Innings
Published on 24. January 2023
430 pages
978-1-5040-8166-5 (ISBN)
Description
The acclaimed
New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981.
Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game's finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties.
Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson's three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players' strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game's finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties.
Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson's three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players' strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
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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
- Foreword
- 1: So Long at the Fair
- 2: The Long Green
- 3: Goodbye, Tom
- 4: Several Stories with Sudden Endings
- 5: Voices of Spring
- 6: City Lights: Heartthrobs, Prodigies, Winners, Lost Children
- 7: Sharing the Beat
- 8: Walking into the Picture
- 9: Wilver's Way
- 10: Sunshine Semester
- 11: Distance
- 12: Pluck and Luck
- 13: One Hard Way to Make a Living
- 14: The Web of the Game
- 15: The Silence
- 16: In the Country
- About the Author
- Copyright
