The Summer Game
The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the elegance of the game and the passions invested by players and fans, it goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche.Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition--marked by league expansion, uprooted franchises, the growing hegemony of television, the dominance of pitchers, uneasy relations between players and owners, and mountin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-5951-5
- EAN: 9780803259515
- Produktnummer: 9918188
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 303 S.
- Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.7 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
Über den Autor
Roger Angell is a writer and fiction editor with the New Yorker . His works include The Summer Game (available in a Bison Books edition), Late Innings , and Game Time .
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