"The Summer Game," Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed
baseball writing forever. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the
elegance of the game and the passions invested by players and fans,
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.
Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Brooks Robinson, Bob Gibson,
Sandy Koufax, Carl Yastrzemski, Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer, and Casey
Stengel are seen here with fresh clarity and pleasure. Here is
California baseball in full flower, the once-mighty Yankees in
collapse, baseball in French (in Montreal), indoor baseball (at the
Astrodome), and sweet spring baseball (in Florida)--as Angell
observes, "Always, it seems, there is something more to be
discovered about this game."
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