Famed baseball journalist Roger Angell died Friday of congestive heart failure at 101, his longtime employer, The New Yorker, confirmed.
Angell covered America’s past time for 56 years, beginning in 1962 and concluding in 2018 for The New Yorker.
Angell wrote hundreds of essays and stories for The New Yorker, and also authored several books including “The Five Seasons,” which covered baseball from 1972-76 and was described by Angell as the “most significant half decade in the history of the game.”
The Harvard graduate and Air Force vet was given the J.