Author: Judith Glyde recently retired as a professor of cello and chamber music in the College of Music at the University of ...
The baseball, this magical orb, the actual baseball, Angell’s small miracle of design and utility, has not essentially ...
The Dolphins’ 2-6 start has led to a slight, but not significant, erosion in the team’s local television viewership. South ...
I was sitting in the Shea Stadium press box between Peter Gammons, my then colleague at Sports Illustrated, and Roger Angell, of this magazine. Gammons had spent most of his career with the Boston ...
“Hold a baseball in your hand,” the great sportswriter Roger Angell wrote. “Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side ...
Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese said it was a spitball. The great writer Roger Angell, then a college student in attendance, would later say, "The moment it happened, everybody knew the Yankees ...
I wrote for a great editor, Roger Angell, who sent me delicate rejections — passages of wonderful writing but somehow it wasn’t you at your best — and crisp acceptances — and pleading ...
“Playing baseball in the spring, in the hot summer, has a certain feel.” In his book The Summer Game, the famed baseball ...
Roger Angell was a senior editor and a staff writer. He died in 2022, at the age of a hundred and one.