NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Roger Angell, who turned a 1962 spring training assignment for The New Yorker into an elegant baseball writing career that landed him on the steps of Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame, died Friday.

Roger Angell, who was a sports journalist for The New Yorker for over six decades, died in his Manhattan home on Friday. He was 101. Angell died of congestive heart failure, his wife Margaret Moorman ...

He was 101. Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker. “No one lives forever, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roger had a good shot at it,” New Yorker Editor ...

Roger Angell, who brought a fan's perspective, an intellectual's enlightenment and a poet's lyrical touch to his essays on baseball for The New Yorker magazine, building a reputation as one of America ...