Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered
to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a
fan’s love, a fiction writer’s eye, and an essayist’s
sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through
line quite like Angell’s: born in 1920, he was an avid fan of the
game by the Depression era, when he watched Babe Ruth and Lou
Gehrig hit home runs at Yankee Stadium. He began writing about
baseball in 1962 and continued through the decades, blogging about
baseball’s postseasons, until shortly before his death in 2022.
No Place I Would Rather Be tells the story of Angell’s
contribution to sportswriting, including his early short stories,
pieces for the New Yorker, autobiographical essays, seven books,
and the common threads that run through them. His work reflects
rapidly changing mores as well as evolving forces on and off the
field, reacting to a half century of cultural turmoil, shifts in
trends and professional attitudes of ballplayers and executives,
and a complex, discerning, and diverse audience. Baseball is both
change and constancy, and Angell was the preeminent essayist of
that paradox. His writing encompassed fondness for the past, a
sober reckoning of the present, and hope for the future of the
game. This edition features a new epilogue.
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