Roger Angell

Autobiography of Roger Angell's early years growing up in New York with his mother, Katharine White, founding editor of "The New Yorker" and his step-father, author E.B. White.

A classic collection of early sportswriting by renowned reporter Roger Angell Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell's first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a stunning collection of his essays on the major leagues, covering a span of ten seasons. Angell brilliantly captures the nation's most beloved sport through the 1960s, spanning both the winning teams and the "horrendous losers," and including famed players...

In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York...

Roger Angell's chronicle of baseball's most fascinating and unforgettable years 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...

Color photographs of great moments and great players of the past twenty years in baseball, accompanied by an essay on the sport and the photographer.

A down and out baseball scout finds a truly amazing player in a small Mexican town. The only problem is that the player is literally crazy.

A narration of short stories previously broadcasted on public radio stations.