Five Seasons: A Baseball CompanionA chronicle of our national pastime’s most unforgettable era from the bestselling author of The Summer Game—“No one writes better about baseball” (The Boston Globe). Classic New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell calls 1972 to 1976 “the most important half-decade in the history of the game.” The early to mid-1970s brought unprecedented changes to America’s ancient pastime: astounding performances by Nolan Ryan and Hank Aaron; the intensity of the “best-ever” 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox; the changes growing from bitter and extended labor strikes and lockouts; and the vast new influence of network television on the game. Angell, always a fan as well as a writer, casts a knowing but noncynical eye on these events, offering a fresh perspective to baseball’s continuing appeal during this brilliant and transformative era. |
Contents
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Buttercups Rampant | |
Stories for a Rainy Afternoon | |
Season Lightly | |
Three for the Tigers | |
Mets Redux | |
Landscape with Figures | |
Sunny Side of the Street | |
Gone for Good | |
The Companions of the Game | |
Agincourt and After | |
In the Counting House | |
Scout | |
Cast a Cold | |
How the West Was | |
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