Season Ticket
Published on 5. February 2013
419 pages
978-1-4532-9783-4 (ISBN)
Description
Angell's absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America's national pastimechronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell's collected New Yorker essays, written in his unique voice as a fan and baseball aficionado, cover the development of the game both on the diamond and off. While diving into subjects such as Sparky Anderson's '84 Detroit Tigers, the legendary 1986 World Series and the Curse of the Bambino, and the increasingly pervasive issue of player drug use, Angell reveals the craft and technique of the game, and the unforgettable stories of those who played it.
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02/1989
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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
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 La Vida
- 2 In The Fire
- 3 The Baltimore Fancy
- 4 Easy Lessons
- 5 Being Green
- 6 Tiger, Tiger
- 7 Taking Infield
- 8 Summery
- 9 Quis
- 10 To Missouri
- 11 The Cheers For Keith
- 12 Fortuity
- 13 Not So, Boston
- 14 The Arms Talks
- 15 Up At The Hall
- Copyright
