This is not the book that master baseball chronicler Angell set out to write, the author acknowledges midway through what is essentially a biography of the well-traveled Cone. Angell had planned an "inside look at a wizardly old master at his...
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Roger Angell, Author . Harcourt $25 (302p) ISBN 978-0-15-101350-0
Over the past few years, New Yorker
readers have been treated to the occasional personal reflection from Angell, stepping outside his usual baseball beat to write about such intimacies as his passion for sailing or his childhood fascination with...
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Roger Angell, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $0 (406p) ISBN 978-0-395-38165-6
In this chronicle of seasons from 1982 to 1987, the incomparable Angell (The Summer Game, Five Seasons and Late Innings) combines 19 of his New Yorker articles to tell about several principal events and developments in recent baseball history. Here...
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Roger Angell. Doubleday, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-54113-8
The latest collection of writings from New Yorker fiction editor Angell is anchored by his much-lauded rumination on aging, “This Old Man.” At 94, Angell is a witness to history but hardly a relic of the past. He always seems to know when to drop a...
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Roger Angell, Author, Richard Ford, Introduction by , edited by Steve Kettmann. Harcourt $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-15-100824-7
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...
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Roger Angell, read by Arthur Morey. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-399-56534-2
Morey is a thoroughly competent and earnest reader who consistently exhibits his pleasure in reading Angell’s latest collection, a miscellany from his long career. It includes profiles from the author’s reportage, Commentary and Talk of the Town...
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