Outside The Confines: Roger Angell is turning 100

Roger Angell in 2009 Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The New Yorker There are lots of baseball things we could discuss here today, like the fact there are just over two weeks remaining in the regular season, or that Zack Wheeler inexplicably sustained an injury to his pitching hand while putting on his pants. (I wish I was making that up.)

What I’ll lead with today, though, is the recent 100th birthday of Roger Angell.

Roger Angell’s name might not be as immediately recognizable to a younger generation of baseball fans as it is to those who have been around for several decades, but for the uninitiated, Angell is arguably one of the best baseball writers to have ever picked up a pen…