Today is the one-hundredth birthday of author and editor Roger Angell, one of the great baseball writers of our time. Much of his work over the years has appeared in The New Yorker; indeed he worked with four of the magazine's editors, all but the magazine's founder Harold Ross. On July 26, 2014, Angell received baseball's highest honor for writers, the annual J. G. Taylor Spink Award, at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. This past June, a baseball signed and notated "H-O-F-2014" by Angell was sold on eBay. No doubt it dates from that Spink Award ceremony back when Angell was a spry ninety-three.
Note: You can watch Roger Angell's acceptance speech on The New Yorker's website here.
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| Roger Angell eBay listing ended June 17 2020 |
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| Roger Angell eBay item description |
Note: You can watch Roger Angell's acceptance speech on The New Yorker's website here.
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