Roger Angell Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 Ne... Read more

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]... Read more

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... Read more

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 bein... Read more

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 th... Read more

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 spo... Read more