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.

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 ...

Influential US sportswriter and reporter Roger Angell, often described as the poet laureate of baseball, has died at the age of 101. As a journalist for the New Yorker over six decades ...

Writing about Roger Angell is a form of conceit. It is like commenting on Ted Williams’s batting stance or Tiger Woods’s putting stroke. Angell, the New Yorker’s baseball writer, died May 22 ...

Roger died on Friday. He was a hundred and one ... It’s a fine story, I think—original, strong, and true. Angell was also writing for the magazine: humor pieces, Talk of the Town stories ...

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 David ...

Angell died Friday of heart failure ... as “The Stone Arbor and Other Stories” and “A Day in the Life of Roger Angell,” a collection of his humor pieces. He also edited “Nothing But ...