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Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park (1991) This baseball reader contains a selection of passages from Angell's books, including Late Innings and The Summer Game, as well as previously unpublished material; altogether more than thirty years of writing about baseball. New ideas are introduced in this definitive collection—such as a commentary on baseball movies and rehashing the evolution of the game in the stands with National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998)—and old ideas resound, none more than Angell's lifelong love of the game. The collection demonstrates the author's humor, his insight and From Herbert Mitgang of The New York Times: "Roger Angell's One More Around the Park is a baseball book for all seasons. To read it is like watching a game unfold in its own good time over a long afternoon, hoping it will go into extra innings and last until sundown. . . . What puts Once More Around the Park on the big-league shelf is, above all, language and, after that, respect for the individuality and awe for the professionalism of its characters. Mr. Angell makes baseball sound like an art form; he demonstrates that writing about it is an art form, too." From Chicago Tribune Book World: "A triumph of art and grace." From Newsweek: "Angell resembles a pitcher with pinpoint control. As a chronicler of the game, he's in a class with Ring Lardner and Red Smith." MORE: Amazon (synopsis and reviews) |
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