Roger Angell

Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 20, 2022) was an American author and editor who is considered one of the best baseball writers of all time. Angell was a fiction editor at The New Yorker, the magazine in which most of his essays on baseball first appeared. A lifelong baseball fan, he grew up in New York City watching the New York Giants and New York Yankees play in...