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Angell, Roger (1920—)
Writer, parodist, and magazine editor Roger Angell is most notable as an analyst of the philosophy and intricacies of professional baseball and its hidden meanings, what i...
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Roger Angell has combined his lifelong enthusiasm for baseball with a talent for composing stylish, intelligent prose to craft masterful essays admired by sports fans and general readers alike. In 196...
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Roger Angell may be the best baseball writer of his era. For more than thirty years, and in five books, he has expressed a youthful enthusiasm for the American game in mature prose. He has managed to ...
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Critical Essay by Keith Cushman
Angell is simply the most elegant, stylish, and intelligent baseball writer in the country today. His annual autumn account of the World Series [that appears in the New...
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Critical Essay by Mark Harris
The 16 essays in "Late Innings" cover the period from 1977 to 1981 and, depending upon our geography, connect to our nostalgia for a past so recent that is ...
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Critical Essay by Wilfrid Sheed
Angell is doted on by the dabblers, the people who pick baseball up and put it down as the mood strikes, but is not, I believe, fully approved of in [sports columnist] ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
The bare bones of Roger Angell's "The Summer Game" do not seem promising. Ten years' worth of reports on baseball that have alre...
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Critical Essay by Ted Solotaroff
"The Summer Game" provides such finely observed and finely written reportage on major-league baseball during the past decade that I hope it will triumph ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Gray
Angell is a formidable humorist. Yet he sees all the current tinkering with baseball as no laughing matter. He imagines a time when the World Series will be totally surrend...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
Make no mistake about it, Five Seasons is a "baseball book." It is, in point of fact, one of the two best baseball books we have—the other being...
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Critical Essay by Edward Hoagland
I've never read a sporting novel that succeeded as do novels of the sea or of the West,… although I've read a number that attempted to inflate on...
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Critical Essay by Donald Hall
Roger Angell's Five Seasons bears comparison with one other baseball book—Roger Angell's The Summer Game (1972). The new book is even better than the...
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Critical Essay by Art Hill
Rather than try to match superlatives with other reviewers of Roger Angell's new baseball book [Late Innings] let's just say Angell is back, and the stuff is a...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
Late Innings is [Angell's] third collection of baseball pieces, and on the whole it reaffirms his position as the most astute and graceful chronicler the spor...
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Angell, Roger (1920—)
Roger Angell
Critical Essay by Keith Cushman
