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...staff overall has been solid, if not spectacular. The youngsters as well as the veterans are holding up well down the pennant stretch, showing no signs of faltering. In little more than a week, for example, they shutout Expos tour times...
August for baseball fans is usually a month to contemplate home runs, pennant fever and World Series possibilities. The game's exotica, like base-stealing records, are condemned to wistful tavern afternoons. There, oldtimers can sip a brew or two and contemplate Ty Cobb's 96 high-spike steals in 1915, Maury Wills' well-plotted 104 in '62, and Lou Brock's legendary 118 eight years...
...somehow knew before The Sporting News. In the recordbook, they stand first and second among active players in games played, at-bats, hits, singles, doubles, extra base hits, total bases and runs scored. Their teams, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine tar in taut pennant races as baseball resumes after last week's All-Star break. Though neither starred, Yastrzemski for the American League and Rose for the National were naturally in Montreal to confer, consult and otherwise hobnob with their fellow wizards. Since their base paths do not very often cross...
...baseball writer for The New Yorker, Angell first focused on the memorable pitching, hitting and fielding that took place in the park. These joyous narratives--compiled in two previous books. The Summer Game and Five Seasons--were darkened only by the anguish of a slumping player or a pennant-hungry...
What singles out Angell, aside from his smooth prose, is his often subjective, personalized technique. He certainly plays favorites with teams and players, unafraid to hope, in print, for a Mets win--because they won't win too many games--or a Red Sox pennant--became he is an unabashed fan. This luxury, unavailable to those writing daily on the beat, has helped "connect myself with the fans...