As fiction editor, he helped mold the stories of generations of writers. As a sportswriter, he was enshrined in the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, has died. He was 101. Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker. “No one lives forever, but you’d…
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