<div>Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: &ldquo;Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and&hellip;heartbreaking.&rdquo;&mdash;The Boston Globe For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay&mdash;sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small&mdash;from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball, to crossing paths with such twentieth-century luminaries as Babe Ruth, John Updike, Joe DiMaggio, S.J. Perelman, and W. Somerset Maugham. He discusses his dread of Christmas, a revealing recurring dream, and his stepfather, E.B. White. He recalls glorious images from the movies he saw as a child (for which Angell has a nearly encyclopedic memory), the sheer bliss of sailing off the coast of Maine, and the even greater pleasure of heading home to the perfect 6 p.m. vodka martini. Personal, reflective, funny, delightfully random, and disarming, this is a unique collection of scenes from a life by the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Game, &ldquo;one of the most entertaining and gracious prose stylists of his&hellip;generation&rdquo; (Time). &ldquo;A lovely book and an honest one&hellip;about loyalty and love, about work and play, about getting on with the cards that life deals you. It&#39;s also a genuinely grown-up book, a rare gem indeed in our pubescent age.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post </div>

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Let Me Finish

<div>This New York Times bestseller &ldquo;takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight&rdquo; (Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal). Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell&rsquo;s first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a stunning collection of his essays on the major leagues, covering a span of ten seasons. Angell brilliantly captures the nation&rsquo;s most beloved sport through the 1960s, spanning both the winning teams and the &ldquo;horrendous losers,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s sports journalism is an insightful and compelling look at the great American pastime.</div>

Overdrive

The Summer Game

<div>Witty and deftly drawn parodies from a literary legend Roger Angell has a long history with the New Yorker: the son of fiction editor Katharine White and the stepson of E. B. White, Angell has spent decades writing and working for the magazine, to which he has contributed across genres and gained special renown for his essays on baseball. With A Day in the Life of Roger Angell, the author&rsquo;s gifts as an urbane humorist come to the fore. The pieces here include two of Angell&rsquo;s famous Christmas poems, parodies&mdash;of horoscopes, sports broadcasts, and Lawrence Durrell&mdash;and a tense correspondence over a short fiction contest that pays only in baked goods. Combined, these miniatures form a funny and charming chronicle of Manhattan life, as experienced both on the ground and in the city&rsquo;s most literary circles. </div>

A Day in the Life of Roger Angell

<div>Angell&rsquo;s absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America&rsquo;s national pastime&mdash;chronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell&rsquo;s collected New Yorker essays, written in his unique voice as a fan and baseball aficionado, cover the development of the game both on the diamond and off. While diving into subjects such as Sparky Anderson&rsquo;s &rsquo;84 Detroit Tigers, the legendary 1986 World Series and the Curse of the Bambino, and the increasingly pervasive issue of player drug use, Angell reveals the craft and technique of the game, and the unforgettable stories of those who played it.</div>

Season Ticket

<div>From &ldquo;the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball&rdquo;&mdash;a definitive collection of three nonfiction classics chronicling MLB into the modern age (New York Post). In these three classic volumes, legendary New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell chronicles the triumphs, travails, heroes, and history of America&rsquo;s favorite pastime. In The Summer Game, Angell covers ten seasons in the major leagues from the 1960s to the early 1970s. With his signature panache, Angell captures the flavor of the game and the spirit of legends such as Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, and Willie Mays. In Five Seasons, Angell covers the mid-1970s, which he calls &ldquo;the most important half-decade in the history of the game.&rdquo; From the accomplishments of Nolan Ryan and Hank Aaron to the rising influence of network television, Angell offers a fresh perspective on this transformative period. And in Season Ticket, Angell recounts the larger-than-life narratives of baseball in the mid-1980s. Diving into subjects including the notorious 1986 World Series and the Curse of the Bambino, Sparky Anderson&rsquo;s Detroit Tigers, and performance-enhancing drug use, Angell offers insights that are crucial to understanding the game as we know it today. </div>

The Roger Angell Baseball Collection

<div>A chronicle of our national pastime&rsquo;s most unforgettable era from the bestselling author of The Summer Game&mdash;&ldquo;No one writes better about baseball&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). Classic New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell calls 1972 to 1976 &ldquo;the most important half-decade in the history of the game.&rdquo; The early to mid-1970s brought unprecedented changes to America&rsquo;s ancient pastime: astounding performances by Nolan Ryan and Hank Aaron; the intensity of the &ldquo;best-ever&rdquo; 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox; the changes growing from bitter and extended labor strikes and lockouts; and the vast new influence of network television on the game. Angell, always a fan as well as a writer, casts a knowing but noncynical eye on these events, offering a fresh perspective to baseball&rsquo;s continuing appeal during this brilliant and transformative era.</div>

Five Seasons

<div>&ldquo;Baseball&rsquo;s most eloquent analyst&rdquo; demonstrates why he has &ldquo;long since attained the status of national treasure,&rdquo; in this classic essay collection (The New York Times Book Review). Roger Angell&#39;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&rsquo;s swing. Here is 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 backcountry Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez, on the astounding Barry Bonds at Pac Bell Park, and more. With twenty-nine essays divided between spring, summer, and fall, Game Time carries readers through the arc of the season with refreshed understanding and pleasure. With an introduction by Richard Ford, this collection represents Angell&rsquo;s best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002. A New York Times Notable Book</div>

Game Time

<div>The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game&rsquo;s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson&rsquo;s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players&rsquo; strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.</div>

Late Innings

<div>This essay collection covers more than forty years of history, fandom, and insider analysis from &ldquo;the best baseball writer of our time&mdash;maybe ever&rdquo; (Newsweek) The celebrated baseball chronicler has selected his favorite pieces from the last forty years to create Once More Around the Park, a definitive volume of his most memorable work. Here are the extraordinary games Roger Angell has witnessed and written about, as well as compelling insights that deepen our love and understanding of the sport. This book includes such timeless essays as &ldquo;The Interior Stadium,&rdquo; on the complex attractions of baseball; &ldquo;In the Country,&rdquo; on a friendship that began with a fan letter and took Angell far from the big stadiums and big money; &ldquo;The Arms Talks,&rdquo; on contemporary pitching strategy and the arrival of the split-finger delivery; and many others. Angell&rsquo;s conversations with past and present players and managers, scouts and coaches, rookies and Hall of Famers enhance his expertise and critical appreciation, defining him as &ldquo;baseball&rsquo;s most eloquent analyst&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). </div>

Once More Around the Park

<div>The fourth edition of the timeless composition guide, including an introduction by E. B. White and a foreword by Roger Angell. First published in 1919 as a primer for Cornell University students, The Elements of Style became a renowned reference for writers of all kinds. With a straightforward manner that exemplifies its own advice, this succinct book covers everything from tips on proper comma usage to the principles of effective communication. The manual also includes lists of common errors to avoid, making it an indispensable asset for anyone seeking to write clear, correct, and engaging prose. Later reissued with revisions, an introduction, and a chapter on writing by E. B. White, The Elements of Style is now in its fourth edition and features a foreword by White&rsquo;s stepson, the essayist Roger Angell.</div>

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