Roger Angell
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Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920), is a unique figure in the world of American letters, having made a career by writing about baseball, the game called America's national pastime. The stepson of renowned essayist E. B. White, who exerted a lasting influence on his writing, Angell has been called "the best baseball writer ever" for his stylish, intelligent prose.
Essays and books
Angell's earliest published works were pieces of short fiction and personal narratives. He first wrote professionally about baseball in 1962, when he was invited by The New Yorker—at which his mother Katharine Sergeant Angell and stepfather E. B. White were editors, from the 1920s through the 1970s—to travel to Florida to write a few pieces about spring training.
Since then, Angell has translated a lifetime passion for the sport into a steady stream of elegantly written essays, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker, where he has worked as an editor since 1956. Many of these essays have been collected in a series of critically acclaimed, best-selling books:
- The Summer Game (1972, ISBN 0670681644)
- Five Seasons (1977, ISBN 0671227432)
- Late Innings (1982, ISBN 0671425676)
- Season Ticket (1988, ISBN 0395381657)
- Once More Around the Park (1991, ISBN 0345367375)
- Game Time (2003, ISBN 0151008248)
Game Time, his most recent collection, is edited by Steve Kettmann and features an introduction by the novelist Richard Ford.