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The Summer Game

Angell, Roger. Book - 2004 796.357 An 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1972.
Rustle of spring -- Box scores -- The old folks behind home -- The short season -- Amazin' -- The "go!" shouters -- S is for so lovable -- Farewell -- A clean, well-lighted cellar -- Classics and campaigns-I -- A tale of three cities -- Taverns in the town -- Two strikes on the image -- West of the Bronx -- The future, maybe -- The cool bubble -- Classics and campaigns-II -- A terrific strain -- The flowering and subsequent deflowering of New England -- A little noise at twilight -- The leaping corpse, the shallow -- Cellar, the French pastime, the walking radio, and other summer mysteries -- Days and nights with the unbored -- The Baltimore Vermeers -- Part of a season: bay and back bay -- Some pirates and lesser men -- The interior stadium.
"The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. 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." --Book Jacket.

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PUBLISHED
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
Year Published: 2004
Description: x, 303 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0803259514
9780803259515

SUBJECTS
Baseball.