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American sports essayist Roger Angell tells of baseball games, players, and seasons from the spring of 1977 to the late summer of 1981 as he takes readers beyond the field into the depth of the game and the business of the sport.

Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball with commentary of the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of the sport during the late seventies and early eighties.

Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell shares a timeless perspective of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.

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Simon & Schuster
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February 2, 2013
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6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
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1476738459
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Roger Angell is the former chief fiction editor of and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He is a popular writer know for works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, with most of his writing focused on sports.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (February 2, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476738459
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476738451
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.55 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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Bud Willie

Loved it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2015

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So many memories brought back. Loved it.

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JohnnnySmallls

You Don't Understand This Game

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2011

Roger Angell's books on baseball are always insightful and rich. I never tire of his descriptions and his characterizations of people and place.

This book is no exception, and only adds to his solid body of work. He does an apt job of making an amazingly tumultuous era in baseball -- the late 1970s -- serene and part of a broader story of the game. His insights into Tom Seaver, Joe Torre, the Yankees, the Brewers, etc. make for fine reading during the hot summer months of reality or of the mind.

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William R Mullins

Print-to-order book with pages falling out before 1st reading

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 14, 2022

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Incredibly disappointed that the new book I purchased turned out to be a print-to-order paperback with pages falling out the first time I flipped through it. I have returned it for a refund. I will look for good quality used versions instead, or maybe just get it on Kindle. I absolutely love Roger Angell, who just passed away, and I wanted another print copy of this particular title. It's a shame that my 40-year-old falling apart paperback still has better glue in the binding than this new one has, printed last week.

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An overdose of rich artistry

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2020

This collection of Angell’s baseball writing—his third—covers the years 1977-1981, a particularly meaningful period of baseball history for me, since during these years I first began to collect baseball cards and learn the players’ names and pore over the statistics and try to understand the complexities of the game. Angell writes of both the game itself and cultural issues connected to the game—for example, the sexism that was finally acknowledged when female sportswriters sued for locker room access and the hegemony that needed to be challenged in order to eradicate the reserve clause and empower players through the advent of free agency (which led, of course, to the 1981 players’ strike).

As always, Angell’s command of the language is elegant and evocative—the artistry of his prose is simply unmatched among baseball writers. He is a baseball historian, an erudite student of the game, an analyst, and the sport’s most eloquent fan.

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Dragonfly

Superb Baseball Writing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2013

Roger Angell describes our national pastime with an eloquence and passion that leads some to call him the poet laureate of baseball. This now-dated book examines baseball circa 1977-81, as free agency took hold, and many games were played in those horrid, astro-turfed, multi-purpose stadiums that have (thankfully) been done away with. Readers see Tom Seaver, Reggie Jackson, Phil Neikro, Jim Palmer, George Brett, Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, Fred Lynn and others dominate on the field, while Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and the Earl (Weaver) of Baltimore did so from the dugout. Those five seasons each had great pennant races, plus broken hearts in Boston, Houston and Kansas City. At the time many teams sported softball-jersey uniforms, set-up men and closers came into greater use, and attendance rose at a surprising rate (yet then as now, owners falsely cried poverty). There was also a lengthy 1981 player's strike, which the owners basically forced and then lost as their strike insurance ran out. This was also a time just before personal computers and stats guru's like Bill James began to affect baseball strategy and thinking.

Roger Angell (born 1920) has also written several other great books including The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket. Any real baseball fan should also be a Roger Angell fan.

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P. Borgstadt

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2014

will be a year before I get all of the books read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2017

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Ordered by mistake. Meant to order This Old Man instead. Not my thing. Essays, long essays, on baseball during 70's and 80's. Good choice for true baseball fanatic.

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Larry Thiel Jr.

should be a kindle book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2019

I don't get it, why isn't this available for Kindle purchase?

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