Roger Angell

Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion (2004)

Five Seasons is a great series of essays Angell penned between 1972 and 1977, mostly for the New Yorker. This period, Angell argues, was the most significant half-decade in the game's history. I don't know if he's changed his mind about that claim since the foreword was written, but the pieces in...

Let Me Finish (2007)

I read a few of these essays in The New Yorker, attracted initially because of Angell's essay about E. B. White ("Andy"); I'm interested in all things White. Some of the essays in this collection work really well as literary art--like "Getting There," which involves a description of a round of g...

The Summer Game (2004)