<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>

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>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>

Roger Angell

Books By Roger Angell (6 Books)

The Summer Game

A Day in the Life of Roger Angell

Season Ticket

The Roger Angell Baseball Collection

Five Seasons

Let Me Finish

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Roger Angell

Books By Roger Angell (6 Books)

The Summer Game

A Day in the Life of Roger Angell

Season Ticket

The Roger Angell Baseball Collection

Five Seasons

Let Me Finish

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