Season Ticket
Roger Angell
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Description
Angell’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’s national pastime—chronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell’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’s ’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.
“Angell is the best baseball essayist around. His relaxed prose glides across the page with a confident grace that most writers—let alone baseball writers—would kill for.” —Chicago Tribune
“As always, Angell’s prose is crystal clear, his observations are right on the mark, and his book is a joy to read.” —Library Journal
“No one writes better about baseball.” —The Boston Globe
“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: 419 Pages
- Language: English
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