Blogs about: Roger Angell

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The Joy of Rereading

herusantoso wrote 3 weeks ago: My first encounter with Romo Mangun’s Burung-Burung Manyar (The Weaver Birds) came about 5 yea … more →

Tags: Books, burung burung manyar, Romo Mangun

* The joy of sections

ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: One of the major complaints from fans and (especially) non-fans is that the games take too long. Don … more →

Tags: Writers, Older title, Classic title, Newspapers, Magazines, Writer Profile, Commentary by Ron Kaplan, Thomas Boswell

It's close, but I think I'd rather Carrie her Underwood6 comments

Porky wrote 4 months ago: I caught some of the late local news while in a flu-like fog Wednesday night. Channel 4 led with the … more →

Tags: Baseball, Buffalo, Football, MLB, NFL, NHL, Sabres, Art Fern, buffalo eats

* Torre book finds an Angell2 comments

ronkaplan wrote 4 months ago: Ordinarily, I wouldn’t go back to a review of The Yankee Years; that so over. But I’ll m … more →

Tags: Reviews from other sources, Magazines, autobiography, Managers, 2009 title, Joe Torre

To Read and Listen

kristynwinters wrote 5 months ago: You can find this month’s New Yorker Fiction Podcast here. It features Roger Angell reading … more →

Tags: Books, Noteworthy Links, Don DeLillo, The New Yorker, John Updike, fiction podcast, Saul Bellow, Agni

A perfect paper world: My ideal baseball magazine in a less than ideal magazine-starting world2 comments

alamosweet wrote 5 months ago: Lance Berkman, Baseball Digest magazine Last year I had a subscription to Baseball Digest. Supportin … more →

Tags: Baseball's Print Media, baseball aesthetics, Print Media, Baseball Digest, Baseball magazines, Magazines, baseball writing, Manny Pacquiao, New Yorker Magazine

Best of (online) magazines1 comment

jonahogles wrote 6 months ago: Today’s links: To begin with, this post by Roger Angell on Ricky Henderson’s election to … more →

Tags: Daily Review, Jeffrey Goldberg, James Fallows, New Yorker, npr, m. ward, NFL, The Atlantic, Review

Review: Game Time

ronkaplan wrote 6 months ago: Baseball GB posted this review of Roger Angell’s 2004 collection. An amazing amount of the boo … more →

Tags: Reviews from other sources, Classic title, Audio

Thanksgiving

Schuyler wrote 7 months ago: At the risk of revealing my sappiness, I thought it would be appropriate to relate a little thankful … more →

Tags: Behind the Scenes, Stories, Thanksgiving, Beyonce, Big Chill, turkey

Roger Angell Has a Blog3 comments

Dai wrote 7 months ago: Here. It’s wonderful. And it proves that very old men are in fact capable of learning about th … more →

Tags: Old Sport

* A little slice of heaven from Roger Angell

ronkaplan wrote 1 year ago: From the July 7 issue of The New Yorker, a piece about a statistical anomaly and the New York Yankee … more →

Tags: Magazines, New York Yankees, boston braves

* Review: A Summer Game

ronkaplan wrote 1 year ago: Speaking of oldies, here’s a blast from the past: Roger Angell’s collection of baseball … more →

Tags: Reviews from other sources, Classic title

The Elements Of Style3 comments

Don wrote 1 year ago: I find that the best non-fiction books to read are the ones that make you go “Ah, that makes s … more →

Tags: writing, Book Review, English, The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr, E.B. White

Craving baseball...

oh wrote 1 year ago:               Sometimes you need to get out and about, not for business or parties, not for anythin … more →

Tags: Writers, Magazines, writing, Baseball, Busch Stadium, Stadium, yankees, Cardinal Nation

Anatomy of Baseball - edited by Lee Gutkind and Andrew Blauner2 comments

Pat Lagreid wrote 1 year ago: A while back I wrote about It Takes More Than Balls by Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney, otherwise kno … more →

Tags: Anatomy of Baseball, Andrew Blauner, baseball short essays, Frank Deford, Lee Gutkind

Do the chickens have large talons?

jrfinger wrote 1 year ago: Just like Napoleon’s big brother Kip, newly acquired Phillies reliever Rudy Seanez is training … more →

Tags: Rudy Seanez, Barack Obama, cage fighting, Wilbur Chocolate Factory

* A new New Yorker baseball essay by Roger Angell

ronkaplan wrote 1 year ago: Forget the peanuts and popcorn. One of the nice things about the new season is the chance to read an … more →

Tags: Magazines, Audio, baseball essays

Opening Day6 comments

Pax Arcana wrote 1 year ago: Pax Arcana Though the Red Sox and A’s have already played two games in Japan — and the B … more →

Tags: Baseball, Mets, Opening Day!

In Praise of Roger Angell3 comments

bas1809 wrote 1 year ago: Too often in life we fail to give praise to people. It’s always one of those “I can do i … more →

Tags: Life, Baseball, Imagination, writing


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