1johnandlisa
Perhaps the greatest baseball writer of all time. NY Times obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/sports/roger-angell-dead.html?searchResultPos...
2rocketjk
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.
3languagehat
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
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