A review by jfranco77
The Summer Game by Roger Angell

3.0

This book is a collection of essays written by Angell in the 60s and early 70s. He focuses mostly on playoffs and world series, but there's also some discussion about the labor and racial strife that plagued the game during this time, and some coverage of the regular season and the "future of the game." There's a lot of Mets coverage, as Angell was both a fan and frequent commenter on the team from their inception.

I really wanted to like this book more. I'm a huge baseball fan and this wasn't an era where I knew a lot of the details beyond the end of season results. Some of the essays were brilliant, and I definitely learned a lot. It was just a slog to get through it at times.