NEW YORK - Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker
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.
Roger Angell died at 101 of heart failure. He was a past winner of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award, formerly the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.