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by ROGER ANGELL
That was once what Baseball Fan and Author Roger Angell (The Summer Game; 1972) calls one of the "sunlit verities of the game." Not any more. Disputes between owners and players have delayed spring training twice in the past five years - precisely the troubled period recaptured in Five Seasons. This...
An editor at The New Yorker (where most of the 16 pieces originally appeared), Angell is a formidable humorist. Yet he sees all the current tinkering with baseball as no laughing matter. He imagines a time when the World Series will be totally surrendered to television, transported to some domed...
Katheryn Angell '74, assistant to the director, who advised the committee on the questionaires, said yesterday some of the suggestions could create as many problems as they could solve.
Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased...