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Summer Game by Roger Angell (1972, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670681644

ISBN-139780670681648

eBay Product ID (ePID)4437835

Product Key Features

Publication Year1972

Book TitleSummer Game

TopicBaseball / General, General

Number of PagesXii, 303 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreSports & Recreation

AuthorRoger Angell

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight320.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN76-183512

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal796.357/0973

SynopsisThe Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the elegance of the game and the passions invested by players and fans, it goes beyond the usual sports reporter's beat to examine baseball's complex place in our American psyche. Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion Mets and a classic 1971 World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles, Angell finds baseball in the 1960s as a game in transition -- marked by league expansion, uprooted franchises, the growing hegemony of television, the dominance of pitchers, uneasy relations between players and owners, and mounting competition from other sports for the fans' dollars. Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Brooks Robinson, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Carl Yastrzemski, Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer, and Casey Stengel are seen here with fresh clarity and pleasure. Here is California baseball in full flower, the oncemighty Yankees in collapse, baseball in French (in Montreal), indoor baseball (at the Astrodome), and sweet spring baseball (in Florida) -- as Angell observes, "Always, it seems, there is something more to be discovered about this game." Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberGV867.A54