Summer Game

Name: Summer Game
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ISBN: 9780803259515

ISBN-10: 0803259514

ISBN-13: 9780803259515

Edition: 2004

Authors: Roger Angell

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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 mounting competition from other sports for the fans’…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 303
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Roger Angell lives in New York City.



Foreword



Rustle of Spring


Box Scores


The Old Folks behind Home


The Short Season



Amazin'


The "Go!" Shouters


S Is for So Lovable


Farewell


A Clean, Well-Lighted Cellar



Classics and Campaigns--I


A Tale of Three Cities


Taverns in the Town


Two Strikes on the Image


West of the Bronx



The Future, Maybe


The Cool Bubble



Classics and Campaigns--II


A Terrific Strain


The Flowering and Subsequent Deflowering of New England


A Little Noise at Twilight


The Leaping Corpse, the Shallow Cellar, the French Pastime, the Walking Radio, and Other Summer Mysteries


Days and Nights with the Unbored


The Baltimore Vermeers


Part of a Season: Bay and Back Bay


Some Pirates and Lesser Men



The Interior Stadium


The Interior Stadium