RIP Roger Angell

Perhaps the greatest baseball writer of all time. NY Times obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/sports/roger-angell-dead.html?searchResultPos...

Yes, Angell was a great, great writer, as well as an extremely influential fiction editor for The New Yorker. I never listen to Ron Darling announcing a ballgame without thinking about that great long-ago piece of Angell's in which he sat in the stands with Smokey Joe Wood watching Ron Darling of Yale pitch against Frank Viola of St. John's.

That's "The Web of the Game," from 1981:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/07/20/the-web-of-the-game

I still remember it after over four decades. Same goes for "Distance," about the amazing Bob Gibson:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/09/22/distance