Roger Angell
Roger Angell
Roger Angellis an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He has written numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 September 1920
CountryUnited States of America
nervous travel
He was too nervous to travel, by and large.
enthusiast people stand tim unusual
Tim is unusual because he is such an enthusiast for the game. A lot of people I know can't stand him. ""I just can't stand him,"" they'll say. ""He's always blathering on about baseball.
writing hard
Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.
yankees perfection half
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.
phones mind breakfast
What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.