Late Innings: A Baseball Companion

by Roger Angell

Overview

American sports essayist Roger Angell tells of baseball games, players, and seasons from the spring of 1977 to the late summer of 1981 as he takes readers beyond the field into the depth of the game and the business of the sport.

Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball with commentary of the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of the sport during the late seventies and early eighties.

Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell shares a timeless perspective of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476738451
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	02/02/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	451,770
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Roger Angell is the former chief fiction editor of and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He is a popular writer know for works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, with most of his writing focused on sports.

Editorial Reviews

The 16 essays in ''Late Innings'' cover the period from 1977 to 1981and, depending upon our geography, connect to our nostalgia for a past so recent that is has not been remembered....Although Mr. Angell's specialty is baseball, he marvelously avoids the cliches and weary formulations that characterize baseball writing....He cares for his own style and is rather a genius at writing well without seeming to press....He is the artist whose respect for the art he observes exceeds every temptation to cynicism. -- New York Times

Mark Harris