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NFT: Roger Angell, famous baseball writer, passes away

M.S. : 5/20/2022 7:43 pm

By Dwight Garner, NYT
May 20, 2022

"Roger Angell, the elegant and thoughtful baseball writer who was widely considered among the best America has produced, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 101."

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I thought he was long gone

HomerJones45 : 5/20/2022 7:54 pm : link

101? Wow! Enjoyed his baseball pieces in the New Yorker. He was a great writer. God bless.

Wonderful piece about Angell

David in Belmont : 5/20/2022 8:24 pm : link

in the New Yorker. I enjoyed his books on baseball even though I find the game too slow.

Great baseball writer.

Del Shofner : 5/20/2022 9:43 pm : link

RIP @ 101.

RE: Wonderful piece about Angell

Ira : 5/21/2022 5:52 am : link

In comment 15714678 David in Belmont said:

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in the New Yorker. I enjoyed his books on baseball even though I find the game too slow.

Thanks for the tip. I found it online. It is a wonderful article.

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He was not only the greatest of baseball writers; he had also lived long enough to see Babe Ruth, of the Yankees, at one end of his life and Shohei Ohtani, of the Angels, at the other. Age conferred authority. When Roger covered the Yanks in their late-nineties heyday, Joe Torre, the team’s heavy-lidded chief, would sometimes interrupt one of his avuncular soliloquies to a clutch of young reporters and look to him for affirmation: “Roger, am I getting that right?”

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