The Roger Angell Baseball Collection
The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket
A captivating collection of three nonfiction baseball books by acclaimed writer Roger Angell: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season TicketThe Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a stunning collection of Angell's essays on the major leagues, covering a span of ten seasons. Angell brilliantly captures the nation's most beloved sport through the 1960s, spanning both the winning teams and the horrendous losers, and including famed players Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Willie Mays, and more. With the panache of a seasoned sportswriter and the energy of an avid baseball fan, Angell's sports journalism is a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4804-6561-9
- EAN: 9781480465619
- Produktnummer: 31910976
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 1135 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'969 KB
Über den Autor
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.
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