Roger Angell, 1920-2022, was the senior fiction editor and an eminent baseball essayist for The New Yorker magazine. His evocative essays, spanning over forty years, are told from a fan's perspective and celebrate the game's leisurely pace and gradual rewards. Angell's collective work, writes Joe Pollock in The Sporting Scene Book Review (1972), "touches the heart and feel and rhythm and pace of the game as few writers have." Roger Angell was born in New York City on September 19, 1920, to Katherine and Ernest Angell. His father was a successful lawyer and his mother began serving as The New Yorker's fiction editor shortly after its inception in 1925. Soon after her divorce from Ernest in 1929, Katharine Sergeant Angell married famed fiction author and New Yorker writer E. B. White, who produced humor pieces for the magazine. At an early age, Angell showed an interest in publishing and became editor of his school newspaper. In 1942, he graduated from Harvard and went on to write and edit short stories and essays for the next decade, including pieces for the Air Force's Brief and Holiday magazine. He joined the staff of The New Yorker full time in 1956 as a fiction editor and has since written fiction, humor, editorial comment, criticism, and sports reports for the magazine. In 1962, The New Yorker invited Angell to attend spring training and write a piece on baseball. Upon his return, he authored his first extended baseball essay for the magazine's "The Sporting Scene" section, entitled "The Old Folks Behind Home". Since that time, Angell has written two to three lengthy baseball pieces each year. His work spans over forty years of the game, during which time he has observed the rise of the franchise movement, the birth of free agency, expansion teams, ballooning player salaries, and a growing awareness of drug use. To date, Angell has written over one hundred articles for "The Sporting Scene". In addition, collections of Angell's essays have been published in a number of well-received compilations (The Summer Game (1972), Five Seasons (1977), Late Innings (1982), Season Ticket (1988), Once More Around the Park (1991), and Game Time (2003),) Angell wrote his first full-length book, A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone (2001), at the age of 81. In 2006, Angell published "Let Me Finish," a collection of autobiographical essays published over the previous three years. References Haynes, Jared. "They Look Easy, But They're Hard: An Interview with Roger Angell." Writing on the Edge 4 (Fall 1992). Italie, Hillel. "Big Apple Angell: New Yorker baseball scribe still strong at 85." Daily News, May 21, 2006. Kettman, Steve. "Roger Angell." Salon.com. Aug. 29, 2000. http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/08/29/angell/index.html (accessed on July 17, 2007). Pollock, Joe. The Sporting News Book Review July 8 1972 "Roger Angell." Dec. 24, 2006. http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Roger_Angell (accessed June 26, 2007). Welch, Dave. "Roger Angell: Still Throwing Strikes." Powells.com. Apr. 16, 2003. http://www.powells.com/authors/angell.html (accessed on May 12, 2003).