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Angell, Roger.

Game time : a baseball companion / Roger Angell ; edited by Steve Kettmann.

1st ed.

San Diego : Harcourt, ©2003.

xviii, 398 pages ; 25 cm

Roger Angell, considered to be baseball's greatest writer, offers a collection of his favorite pieces on baseball, including several previously unpublished stories, profiles of great players, past and present, and other works from 1962 spring training to the 2002 World Series.

Baseball -- United States.

Baseball -- United States -- History.

Kettmann, Steve.

"A Harvest original."

Spring -- The old folks behind home -- Sunny side of the street -- Easy lessons -- Takes: waltz of the geezers -- Put me in, coach -- Takes: digging up Willie -- For openers -- Takes: pride -- Let go, Mets -- Summer -- Early innings -- The companions of the game -- Scout -- Distance -- The web of the game -- Takes: penmen -- Takes: payback -- Wings of fire -- The bard in the booth -- Style -- Takes: three Petes -- Fall -- Takes: Jacksonian -- Blue collar -- Takes: the confines -- Ninety feet -- One for the good guys -- Legends of the fens -- Can you believe it? -- Takes: the purist.

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