Ebook {Epub PDF} Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell

A friend of mine, versed in literature, mentioned Roger Angell as being the best baseball writer of all time. Angell's book, Game Time, confirmed his genius as a voice for America's pastime. Yes, I'm willing to concede that in the U.S.A. football rules as the most popular sport; nonetheless, baseball reins as the most poetic of sports/5. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at .  · Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation.

I am generally a fan of Angell's writing, but not this book: He's constantly looking behind the scenes, instead of at the game, and the whole peek-behind-the-curtain look at a baseball writer's life has gotten old, somehow; I don't really care about baseball's labor issues, however trenchant the copy was at the time, nor does it matter much who went for in a big-league call-up. Roger Angell. See Transcript. Thursday 05/29/ The New Yorker's Roger Angell talks about sports writing and his new book, "Game Time: A Baseball Companion.". People in this video. Angell's Five Seasons is a gem and a gift for baseball lovers of all ages. Roger Angell is a writer and fiction editor with the New Yorker. His works include The Summer Game (available in a Bison Books edition), Late Innings, and Game Time.

Product Information. "Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in a prose style as admired and envied as Ted Williams's swing. Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in a prose style as admired and envied as Ted Williams's swing. All ‘Weekly’ Hit Ground Ball BST Game Guides Fantasy baseball Oakland A’s UK. Fantasy baseball. BGB Fantasy League Week 8. Septem. Fantasy.