onward and outward ·
Roger Angell writes about life after ninety: “I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.”
Roger Angell
Roger Angell was a senior editor and a staff writer. He died in 2022, at the age of a hundred and one.
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the sporting scene ·
Talk story about the upcoming World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros… Baseball has come up with a World Series so free of …
comment ·
Signed comment about the Sammy Sosa scandal... Sosa, downcast and repentant, has finished serving his seven-day suspension from baseball for corking his …
the sporting scene ·
The joys and boos of rooting for that other team.
onward and upward with the arts ·
Roger Angell on growing up in a black-and-white world of cocktail parties, psychiatrists, talking dogs, and the deeply other.
comment ·
Roger Angell’s 1997 Comment on a B-52 bomber pilot, an affair, and sexism in the Air Force.
personal history ·
How it felt to be a young baseball fan in nineteen-thirties New York, with heroes like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Babe Ruth.
profiles ·
Roger Angell on the Kansas City Royals submariner whose pitch invited more similes than stats.
profiles ·
PROFILE of Roy Eisenhardt, president of the Oakland A's baseball team.
the sporting scene ·
From 1980: Roger Angell writes about the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson.
the sporting scene ·
Roger Angell on the brilliance of 1975’s Boston-Cincinnati games.
the sporting scene ·
Roger Angell on the Pirates’ star pitcher Steve Blass, who retired at thirty-three owing to two years of mysterious pitching—a sudden, near-total inability to throw strikes.
fiction ·
These are 4 humorous fictitional submissions to the Bureau of Accomplishments & Awards. The third entry is from Howard Lebo, a lyricist, who hit upon …
the talk of the town ·
The young, in the week of Kent State, asked more—insisted on more—and in so doing restored breath to a country that had seemed in many ways close to extinction.
fiction ·
Short parody of Hermann Hesse. Tells about the adventures of a young man who longs to join a quest. Sad Arthur, a banker's son, runs off to Leonia, N. …
fiction ·
Satire on Reader's Digest anecdotes. Confrontation between small town traffic policeman and the First Selectman's hippie son; portrait of …
other ·
Roger Angell imagines a literary feud sparked by “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
the sporting scene ·
THE SPORTING SCENE about the recent World Series. Writer watched the games on television in local bars. He quotes a poem he found framed on the wall in the…
the sporting scene ·
Roger Angell travels south for the sun-warmed, sleepy show of spring training.
fiction ·
A New Yorker advertisement for the new 4-passenger Thunderbird, a Ford sports car, states that it stands only slightly larger than the raciest car built …
a reporter at large ·
Reporter at Large about a bombing mission to the Japanese island of Iwo. Describes the last dramatic flight of "The Chambermaid," a B-24 Liberator bomber. …
fiction ·
The author’s début short story in The New Yorker, about two women who encounter a surprising scene over their morning coffee at a hotel restaurant.