Roger Angell
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| Born | September 19, 1920 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 20, 2022 (aged 101) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Genre | Sports journalism |
| Notable awards | PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing (2011) BBWAA Career Excellence Award (2014) |
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Roger Angell (September 19, 1920 – May 20, 2022) was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker. Sportswriter Jane Leavy called him "the Babe Ruth of baseball writers."