As always, Angell is mainly concerned with
major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox
pitcher in 1912, and to the big
league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright
female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.