Five Seasons
A Baseball Companion
Roger Angell
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Description
Roger Angell’s chronicle of baseball’s most fascinating and unforgettable years
Classic New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell calls 1972 to 1976 “the most important half-decade in the history of the game.” The early to mid-1970s brought unprecedented changes to America’s ancient pastime: astounding performances by Nolan Ryan and Hank Aaron; the intensity of the “best-ever” 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’s continuing appeal during this brilliant and transformative era.
“A book for people who miss good writing, who miss clarity, lucidity, style and passion. It’s a book for all seasons.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Roger Angell is the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball. His books are like long, wonderful strings of base hits by the home team.” —New York Post
“Angell . . . comes from the magazine writer’s school of sportswriting: calm, meditative, not deadline driven or space cramped, free to follow the fast-and-slow, squeeze-and-relax rhythms of the game.” —Time
“Roger Angell is a stunning writer. . . . A writer who can translate the nuances of the game with perfect clarity.” —The Wall Street Journal
Roger Angell (b. 1920) is a celebrated New Yorker writer and editor. First published in the magazine in 1944, he became a fiction editor and regular contributor in 1956; and remains as a senior editor and staff writer. In addition to seven classic books on baseball, which include The Summer Game (1972), Five Seasons (1977), and Season Ticket (1988), he has written works of fiction, humor, and a memoir, Let Me Finish (2006). He edited the short story collection Nothing But You: Love Stories from The New Yorker (1997). In 2011, he was awarded the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Angell lives in New York City.

- $9.99
- Category: Baseball
- Published: Feb 05, 2013
- Publisher: Open Road Media
- Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
- Print Length: 413 Pages
- Language: English
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