Title: Late Innings
Product review: Aging veteran writer Roger Angell spends the 2000 season with aging veteran pitcher David Cone. Cone struggles with injuries and mechanics to produce a sub-par 4-14 record. Angell struggles with the project in general, producing A Pithcer's Story. Anyone who's enjoyed Roger Angell's previous baseball writing knows that his forte is explaining the game through it's players, relaying anecdotes that give us a sense of being inside the game, and putting the current events of baseball in their historical context. When A Pitcher's Story allows for these moments, Angell shines (see chapters Normal Pain and This Statesman). Unfortunatly, the format (following David Cone through a season) doesn't really allow for this. Maybe David Cone wasn't the right head to get into, maybe Roger Angell wasn't the right guy to try. In either case I hope they can both put the 2000 season behind them and give us one more good year.
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