Roger Angell Dies: Urbane Baseball Writer And Writer For The New Yorker Was 101 Years Old

Roger Angel with live essays on baseball New Yorker He died when he saw it registered in the Special Writers’ Wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. New Yorker editor David Remnick said he was 101 years old and died of heart failure.

“No one lives forever, but I forgive you for thinking Roger played well,” Remnick said on Friday. “Like others, he suffered through pain, loss, and self-doubt, but often kept the sadness at bay, always looking ahead; He continued to write, read, memorize new poems and establish new relationships.

Angel was the son of The New Yorker’s fiction editor Catherine White and the son of co-author EB White. For the first time in the magazine in the 1920s, World War II. It came out during World War II and still contributed in the 1990s.

His career was honored with the BBWAA Award for Professional Excellence for his outstanding contribution to baseball writing, becoming the first writer to receive this honor and not a member of an organization that votes for the American Baseball Writers Association.

Angel New Yorker’s writings have been collected in various baseball books. also edited Something But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker”And he wrote the annual Christmas poem for the magazine for years.

At the age of 93 he completed one of his most glorious trials: This old man! National Magazine Award winner.

“He took a few hits but missed the worst,” he wrote. “Pain and abuse can be tolerated. My speech may be full of gaps and pauses, but I’ve learned to send a personal Apache tracker in the next sentence to see if there are any spaces or verbs in the scene above. “If he sends you a warning, I’ll hold him until I find something else.”

Angel has been married three times, most recently to Margaret Murman. He had three children.