Game Time: A Baseball Companion - Brossura

Angell, Roger; Kettmann, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0156013878 ISBN 13: 9780156013871

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

Riassunto

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. Angell on Fenway Park in September, on Bob Gibson brooding in retirement, on Tom Seaver in mid-windup, on the abysmal early and recent Mets, on a scout at work in backcountry Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez, on the astounding Barry Bonds at Pac Bell Park, and more, carry us through the arc of the season with refreshed understanding and pleasure. This collection represents Angell's best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002.

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PRAISE FOR GAME TIME
“Roger Angell has an undiminished sense of wonder about a game in
which nothing is predictable except the certainty of surprise.The next
best thing to being in the bleachers, in fact, is savoring accounts of the
sport by this cheerful, consistently quotable scorekeeper.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Angell is the best baseball essayist around. His relaxed prose glides
across the page with a confident grace that most writers—let alone
baseball writers—would kill for.”—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

L'autore:

ROGER ANGELL is a writer and fiction editor with the New Yorker. He lives in New York.

STEVE KETTMANN has covered baseball for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications. He lives in Berlin.


ROGER ANGELL is a writer and fiction editor with the New Yorker. He lives in New York.

STEVE KETTMANN has covered baseball for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications. He lives in Berlin.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0156013878
• ISBN 13: 9780156013871
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416