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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780151008247
- Book Title
- Game Time : a Baseball Companion
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Baseball / History, Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General
- Item Weight
- 24 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151008248
ISBN-13
9780151008247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2406905
Product Key Features
Book Title
Game Time : a Baseball Companion
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-152611
Dewey Edition
21
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PRAISE FOR GAME TIME "Roger Angell has an undiminished sense of wonder about a game in which nothing is predictable except the certainty of surprise.The next best thing to being in the bleachers, in fact, is savoring accounts of the sport by this cheerful, consistently quotable scorekeeper." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "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, Angell is the best baseball essayist around....with a confident grace most writers--let alone baseball writers--would kill for., They have a certain aged, triple-distilled quality: each one has the internal complexity of a novel., 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, In Game Time, Roger Angell's essays illuminate baseball's heart and history in careful prose that New Yorker readers have grown to anticipate each spring. The collection spans the forty-plus years of Angell's baseball writing career and includes many of his favorite pieces as well as never-before-published material.Rather than stringing the selections together chronologically, the book's editor, Steve Kettmann, groups them by the three seasons of the game-spring, summer, fall. The structure works well to expose the breadth and depth of Angell's writing across the years. As Richard Ford promises in the introduction, "It is by getting those. . . baseball essentials (strategies, nuances, protocols) down onto the page, and cementing the hard foundation without which sporstswriting can't earn your time away from the game itself, that Angell has made his bones."The downside of this approach, however, is that some selections feel dated or misplaced for readers who did not live through the seasons in question. Many of the rookies scouted or players traded have long since faded into the obscurity. And for essays like "Distance," which profiles pitcher Bob Gibson, placement in "Summer" seems forced, the piece beginning as it does with recollection of Gibson's seventeen strikeout record set in the 1968 World Series.But these are faults to be expected in a collection that represent the vastness of Angell's contribution to baseball. In Angell, baseball is blessed to have found its perfect fan: literate, humble, and always eager for spring., Baseball, a linear game with undulating peaks and valleys, has always attracted more writers than other sports, and of those many writers few have captured the essence of the game better than Angell. This collection of new and previously published writings edited by sports writer Kettmann is a testament to Angell's unquestioned writing skills and love of the game. Chronicling unlikely people and places-a pitcher uneasy in his retirement, a struggling former star, Fenway Park from the bowels of the right-field grandstand, the faceless scout-Angell often eschews the stories in the glare of the spotlight to examine the core values of the national pastime. Like a switch hitter, he deftly commands poetic descriptions (describing Dan Quisenberry's delivery: "a swallowlike, harmless-looking thing that rose abruptly... then changed its mind") and insightful analysis (on records being broken: "this erosion of the game's most famous fixed numbers... makes baseball statistics seem alive and urgent") to create essays that rise and fall like the very action on the field. Unlike many baseball writers who remember watching the likes of Lou Gehrig play at the Polo Grounds, Angell is able to convey his love for the game of yesteryear while still appreciating the stars, achievements and intricacies of the modern game. He manages all of this by not hiding his passion for the sport under the guise of journalistic detachment. On the contrary, he wears his heart on his sleeve, rooting his way through this collection of poignant and personal slices of Americana., PRAISE FOR GAME TIME "Roger Angell has an undiminished sense of wonder about a game in which nothing is predictable except the certainty of surprise.The next best thing to being in the bleachers, in fact, is savoring accounts of the sport by this cheerful, consistently quotable scorekeeper." --THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "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, PRAISE FORA 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, PRAISE FOR GAME TIME eoeRoger Angell has an undiminished sense of wonder about a game in which nothing is predictable except the certainty of surprise.The next best thing to being in the bleachers, in fact, is savoring accounts of the sport by this cheerful, consistently quotable scorekeeper.e e"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW eoeAngell is the best baseball essayist around. His relaxed prose glides across the page with a confident grace that most writerse"let alone baseball writerse"would kill for.ee"CHICAGO TRIBUNE, PRAISE FOR GAME TIME Roger Angell has an undiminished sense of wonder about a game in which nothing is predictable except the certainty of surprise.The next best thing to being in the bleachers, in fact, is savoring accounts of the sport by this cheerful, consistently quotable scorekeeper. -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 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
Dewey Decimal
796.357
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction by Richard Ford ... vii Preface ... xv SPRING The Old Folks Behind Home... 3 Sunny Side of the Street... 16 Easy Lessons... 34 Takes: Waltz of the Geezers... 52 Put Me In, Coach... 57 Takes: Digging Up Willie... 82 For Openers... 87 Takes: Pride... 95 Let Go, Mets... 97 SUMMER Early Innings... 113 The Companions of the Game... 132 Scout... 150 Distance... 175 The Web of the Game... 213 Takes: Penmen... 235 Takes: Payback... 239 Wings of Fire... 241 The Bard in the Booth... 254 Style... 266 Takes: Three Petes... 282 FALL Takes: Jacksonian... 291 Blue Collar... 296 Takes: The Confines... 312 Ninety Feet... 319 One for the Good Guys... 335 Legends of the Fens... 351 Can You Believe It'... 365 Takes: The Purist... 380 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang... 383
Synopsis
"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 back-country 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 new selection represents Angell's best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002, with many chapters not previously seen in book form., 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. This new selection represents Angell's best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002.
LC Classification Number
GV863.A1A533 2003
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