About Roger Angell

Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker. Sportswriter Jane Leavy called him "the Babe Ruth of baseball writers."

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Roger Angell

American essayist

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journalist, sports journalist, essayist, poet

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September 19, 1920

Died

May 20, 2022

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