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Roger Angell, Late Innings (1982) In Late Innings, baseball writer and later senior fiction editor of the New Yorker, Roger Angell shares his memories of four seasons watching the game from the stands. This report comes during the first years of baseball's salary scales, which transformed the relationship between fans and players (players became businessmen, according to the author; in it for the money above all else). The book is both critical of the self-destructiveness of the game—a "middle-aged" phase of major league baseball, Angell writes in the forward—and nostalgic for the heroes of the past, but rather than a jadedness with the major leagues it demonstrates the hope, passion and rapture of the game. In a detailed rendering of games and players of the course of four seasons, Angell captures—through action, interview and conversation—what it is about baseball that lures millions to eat peanuts and perform the seventh inning stretch game after game. From Newsday: "One of the most valuable players in American journalism." From Tampa Tribune Times: "An original and eclectic thinker who takes us right into the heart of the game." MORE: Amazon Audio interview and other links (includes author photo) from Fresh Air (NPR) Baseballlibrary.com bibliography of books and articles on Angell |
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