I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
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Such days and moments pass, in ways that this one has not, but there’s a weary strength in experience, even in the midst of horror.
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| Birth: | 19th September, 1920 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Essayist |
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Roger Angell is an American essayist. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He has written many essays on baseball as well as numerous fiction, non-fiction, and criticism pieces, and formerly wrote an annual Christmas poem for the magazine.
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