Description: 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. This collection represents Angell's best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002.
Brief description:
ROGER ANGELL joined The New Yorker as a fiction editor in 1962. He is the author of seven celebrated baseball books, including Game Time: A Baseball Companion. He lives in New York and Maine.
Review Quotes:
PRAISE FOR A PITCHER'S STORY
"No one writes more evocatively about the craft and magic of baseball than Roger Angell."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Roger Angell is the best baseball writer of our time--maybe ever."--Newsweek
"Baseball's best writer."--The New York Post