Game Time A Baseball Companion

Name: Game Time A Baseball Companion
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ISBN: 9780151008247

ISBN-10: 0151008248

ISBN-13: 9780151008247

Edition: 2003

Authors: Roger Angell, Richard Ford, Steve Kettmann

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"Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years . . . and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. 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. Angell on Fenway Park in September, on Bob Gibson brooding in retirement, on Tom Seaver in mid-windup, on the abysmal early and recent Mets, on a scout at work in back-country Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez, on the astounding Barry Bonds at Pac Bell Park, and more, carry us through the arc of the season…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Roger Angell lives in New York City.

Steve Kettmann has covered baseball for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications. He lives in Berlin.



Introduction



Preface


Spring


The Old Folks Behind Home


Sunny Side of the Street


Easy Lessons


Takes: Waltz of the Geezers


Put Me In, Coach


Takes: Digging Up Willie


For Openers


Takes: Pride


Let Go, Mets


Summer


Early Innings


The Companions of the Game


Scout


Distance


The Web of the Game


Takes: Penmen


Takes: Payback


Wings of Fire


The Bard in the Booth


Style


Takes: Three Petes


Fall


Takes: Jacksonian


Blue Collar


Takes: The Confines


Ninety Feet


One for the Good Guys


Legends of the Fens


Can You Believe It?


Takes: The Purist


Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang