Roger Angell
Born
in New York, The United States
September 19, 1920
Died
May 20, 2022
Genre
The Summer Game (Bison Book)
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1972
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Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
19 editions
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1977
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This Old Man: All in Pieces
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2015
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Let Me Finish
12 editions
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published
2006
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Late Innings
18 editions
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published
1982
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Season Ticket
14 editions
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published
1988
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Game Time: A Baseball Companion
11 editions
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published
2003
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A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone
10 editions
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published
2002
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Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader
11 editions
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1991
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The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket
5 editions
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2013
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“This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.”
― The Summer Game
― The Summer Game
“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look - I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring - caring deeply and passionately, really caring - which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté - the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball - seems a small price to pay for such a gift.”
― Game Time: A Baseball Companion
― Game Time: A Baseball Companion
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”
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