Roger Angell

The Top 25 Baseball Books for Your Desert Island

Jeff Polman | Posted 05.06.2012

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Jeff Polman

I thought this spring would be a fine time to take stock of my home archive and pluck out the top 25 baseball volumes I would like to have in a steamer trunk if my cruise ship to the Caribbean World Series ever runs into a hurricane and dumps me on a very remote, satellite dish-free atoll.

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Book Review: An Irresistible Look Back on Fenway Park's First Season, Not Just for Sox Fans

Steve Kettmann | Posted 12.31.2011

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Steve Kettmann

Glenn Stout's Fenway 1912 offers up a stunningly rich buffet of pleasures for the baseball fan, centered around the construction and opening of Fenway Park almost a century ago and the wild season that followed.

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It May Be Time to Redefine Family

Janet Carlson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Janet Carlson

It's a funny concept, spending money on gifts for the man you're divorcing, isn't it? The man you're trying to disentangle from financially?

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To Honor Baseball's Return, Here's as Great an Opening Day Piece as You Will Find

Steve Kettmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Kettmann

No, I'm not talking about something I've written. Below is an article originally published in the old San Francisco Examiner ten years ago this week. ...

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The Philip Roth Reader: Both Of The Great American Pastimes

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Stabiner

Who are the great baseball writers? Roger Angell, Bill James, George Will (eing a lifetime Chicago Cubs fan has to count for something). Oh yeah -- and Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint.

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Yankee-Hating Is Sooo 20th Century

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martin Nolan

Pinstripe paranoia, a seasonal ailment, has plagued many of us since 1949. Then, in 2004, came deliverance, along with reduction of sorrow and a fresh perspective.

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John Updike's Editor Remembers Legendary Author

New Yorker | Roger Angell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colleagues for more than half a century, writer-editor partners for more than half that time, John Updike and I were close at a fixed distance--he at ...

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