Game Time: A Baseball Companion

Roger Angell

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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 backcountry 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 with refreshed understanding and pleasure. This collection represents Angell's best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002.

Book Details

Publisher: Mariner Books
Publish Date: Mar 15th, 2004
Pages: 398
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.88in - 5.32in - 0.96in - 0.84lb
EAN: 9780156013871
Categories: • Baseball - Essays & Writings• Essays• Coaching - Baseball

About the Author

Angell, Roger: -

ROGER ANGELL joined The New Yorker as a fiction editor in 1962. He is the author of seven celebrated baseball books, including Game Time: A Baseball Companion. He lives in New York and Maine.

Praise for this book

PRAISE FOR A PITCHER'S STORY

"No one writes more evocatively about the craft and magic of baseball than Roger Angell."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Roger Angell is the best baseball writer of our time--maybe ever."--Newsweek

"Baseball's best writer."--The New York Post
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