Summer Game by Roger Angell

Author:Roger Angell [Angell, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-9782-7
Publisher: Open Road
Published: 2012-12-27T20:14:00+00:00

A LITTLE NOISE AT TWILIGHT

— October 1968

SOME YEARS AGO, DURING a spell of hot-stove mooning for summer and baseball, I jotted down on a slip of yellow paper the names and batting averages of the top National League hitters in the year 1930. I have carried the slip in my wallet ever since, and on occasion, when comfortably surrounded with fellow baseball bores, I produce it. While being unmemorable in every other way, 1930 was a hitters’ year. The combined National League batting average was .303, and the top finishers, all full-time regulars, were:

Bill Terry .401

Babe Herman .393

Chuck Klein .386

Lefty O’Doul .383

Freddy Lindstrom .379

Paul Waner .368

Riggs Stephenson .367

Lloyd Waner .362

Kiki Cuyler .355

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