This, while I struggle to remember the plot and characters of a novel I read and enjoyed last month. I can easily picture the brown bordered Street and Smith's preseason baseball issue available each spring. I would instruct my Mom to look for it on the magazine rack on the grocery store, the Friday she brought it home heralded a celebratory weekend of reading. Sometime in the late seventies I purchased a " Sport " magazine which featured an article on Bruins legend Derek Sanderson.
Evidently at the time he has had a colostomy of some sort because he spoke very profanely about having to shit in a bag. I was dumbfounded, athletes talked this way? In a magazine? For everyone to see? All this is a roundabout way of saying that, as much as I did not remember the content of the books, I very much remembered the joy of reading them. It was an easy purchase. Last night I finished The Summer Game, in which the author writes about the baseball seasons from to Writing here about specific anecdotes would be meaningless, if you are a baseball fan you have read or will want to read the book for yourself, but, if one is not a baseball nerd, the details will bore you.
The gist is this, the information is for the beyond casual baseball fan. However, the writing is for the beyond casual fan of literary merit. It is an enticing, but obviously rare combination. Pick a season in this window here. The storied 67 Red Sox season which seems to have overshadowed the great Cards team of the same year.
And, as a recurring subject, Angell visits the storied first decade of the Mets. From the legendary ineptitude of Stengel's 61 team to the wonder of the hopelessly overmatched " Amazins" winning it all in in just FIVE games.
This era was, in retrospect, the height of the black baseball player. Never again would they so dominate the landscape, especially in The National League. Over this era also hung the reserve clause. Angell, it seems now, was uniquely qualified to write about the love of baseball and, at the same time, to examine the many weights it was struggling under in the sixties.
As the country changed, so did baseball, in no way more than in the excelling of black players and the coming storm against total subservience to the baseball owners whims. A final note: I found myself chuckling several times reading Angell address current issues effecting baseball in the sixties. He writes about the distraction of the youth of America, the myriad opportunities for entertainment among kids today that make baseball less popular.
He speaks of the shortening attention span of the sports fan, the loss of prime athletes to other sports such as football and basketball. Some pieces are prescient and some not so much, but what really is clear is that baseball today has the same conversations.
The game is too long, there is no clock, kids have too many choices, we are losing the best athletes. Which, for baseball, conversely, might be the best news of all, the more things change the more things stay the same. Baseball is, and will remain, The Summer Game. His long baseball books don't happen anymore but his occasional piece in The New Yorker on baseball still resonates. A long piece he wrote recently on the struggles and changes of life in his 90's was one of the most well received and recognized pieces in his illustrious career.
Apr 21, Don rated it really liked it. This collection of articles published in The New Yorker covers some of his baseball writings from through the World Series. I started reading the magazine and his baseball reportage regularly a few years later, so these articles are new to me. There are some early season and mid-season looks, but Angell is at his best covering the actual games in the late seasons and the World Series. I'm less enthusiastic about his observations on the business of baseball.
Some of that is just dated This collection of articles published in The New Yorker covers some of his baseball writings from through the World Series. Some of that is just dated. He's not necessarily wrong in his views, but I just found those sections less lively. He doesn't spend much time on changes in the game itself. On some level, his observations about the business of baseball--the off-the-field aspects of the game-- are a bit superficial.
One example: his article on the World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals only hints at the deterioration of the Yankees organization. In contrast, David Halberstam, who wrote a number of extremely incisive books on baseball and basketball, tells a fascinating story in "October " about the contrast in the two teams' organizations, how the Yankees failed to invest in their farm system, failed to aggressively pursue black players until very late in the game and in general let the organization decline.
At the same time, Halberstam shows how the Cardinals built a modern organization that delivered a championship team.
His writing has depths that Angell never reaches. Nevertheless, this was an enjoyable collection of baseball articles. Few if any other writers can capture the essence of a series of games or World Series better than Angell. He excells at selecting the key moments of a game. May 16, John rated it really liked it. I started my springtime baseball books kind of late this year, plus I've been really busy with other work.
And I kept reading this before bed, which meant I would fall asleep. In years past I have usually wrapped up my baseball books by the first weeks of the season, and here it is almost Memorial Day!
The Sox have had time to stink and get better already. Time flies. I really enjoyed this. I was iffy on it at first, because I thought 60's baseball wasn't a particularly interesting time. But the I started my springtime baseball books kind of late this year, plus I've been really busy with other work. But these were great.
They were all originally published in the New Yorker, and almost all of them are kind of summations of the season and what the World Series that year was like. My Red Sox only really make one appearance, in ' There are lots of appearances by the Dodgers, Cardinals, Yankees, and later the Orioles. This book would also be good for Mets fans. I am a Mets enthusiast. Seems wrong to call myself a fan My other league team. But I do like the Mets, and the way Angell structures this book, he gets to tell this nice little tale of the Mets - how they were born, and were terrible, but still had lots of fans in part because of the novelty, and then after seven years of being crummy, they all of a sudden had this season where they could do no wrong.
It was interesting to read about the Miracle Mets just after this amazing Red Sox season , because I could really understand what he was saying - a team like that gets to a point where they seem to get all the breaks, to the point where you just expect the lucky bounces because they are that kind of team.
And then, the next year, it can't really be recreated. Even if most of the team is the same. Revisit a master Roger Angell loves baseball. I know I read this book many years ago, probably about four decades ago. And because many of the pieces focus on the various World Series from the Revisit a master Roger Angell loves baseball. And because many of the pieces focus on the various World Series from the decade running roughly from , that makes sense.
The exception is the Mets, as Angell masterfully covers them both as legendary and beloved losers all the way to world champs. May 18, RC rated it it was amazing. A classic for good reason.
Angell writes, as everyone knows, beautiful, lucid prose about a game that begs to be described, contemplated, and remembered long after the season's last out, replayed in the mind during the long nights of winter.
As a Mets fan, I was probably unduly won over by his affection for the then-new team of lovable losers, and their year of miracles in Angell doesn't get so much into the nitty gritties and technical aspects of the game, but offers more painterly takes, with vivid descriptions of the personalities and physical beauty of the game.
This book is a collection of essays written by Angell in the 60s and early 70s. He focuses mostly on playoffs and world series, but there's also some discussion about the labor and racial strife that plagued the game during this time, and some coverage of the regular season and the "future of the game.
I really wanted to like this book more. I'm a huge baseball fan and this wasn't an This book is a collection of essays written by Angell in the 60s and early 70s.
I'm a huge baseball fan and this wasn't an era where I knew a lot of the details beyond the end of season results. Some of the essays were brilliant, and I definitely learned a lot.
It was just a slog to get through it at times. I really enjoyed this book. Get any books you like and read everywhere you want. We cannot guarantee that every book is in the library! In The Summer Game, Angell covers ten seasons in the major leagues from the s to the early s.
And in Season Ticket, Angell recounts the larger-than-life narratives of baseball in the mids. A collection of the author's favorite pieces on baseball includes several previously unpublished stories, profiles of great players, past and present, and other works from spring training to the World Series.
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Second, the book gives readers a window on the Ken Burns production machine. Gary Edgerton shows us the inner working of Florentine Films. Finally, he looks at Burns as a popular historian who reevaluates the nation's historical legacy from a new generational perspective and, in the process, becomes one of the major cultural commentators of our era. The volume finally takes the full measure of the man and the industry he has helped to create. A unique and timely exploration of the cultural impact of sport on American society, including lifestyles, language, and thinking.
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