Thirty years ago, the author set off to explore the soul of golf, a year-long expedition that resulted in the memoir “To the ...

♦ Published in the print edition of the March 18, 1944, issue. Roger Angell was a senior editor and a staff writer. He died in 2022, at the age of a hundred and one. The Poodle Partying with the ...

Published in the print edition of the July 27, 1963, issue. Roger Angell was a senior editor and a staff writer. He died in 2022, at the age of a hundred and one. They’re floundering at school ...

Really, anything Roger Angell’s written about baseball for The New Yorker since the 1960s could occupy this spot. Still writing for the publication at 95, Angell’s a treasure for the baseball ...

playing to win but also playing the game almost as if it were a form of punishment for everyone else on the field," wrote Roger Angell in The Summer Game. Before Game 7, Clemente had told Angell ...

As I grew more interested in writing, legendary baseball scribes like Red Smith, Jim Murray and Roger Angell taught me to appreciate irony, satire, and metaphor. (Angell once described a baseball ...

“Confidence, discipline, and determination to succeed were all vital components to Roger’s character, which assisted him in being cast on season 6 of the reality TV show Survivor in 2002 ...

Roger, 60, died of complications from colon cancer May 8 at his home, said Kim Vrooman, a longtime friend. He had been a resident of the Albany Park neighborhood. Chicago fashion designer Thierry ...