Editing Roger Angell (section)

==Early life and education==
Born on September 19, 1920, in Manhattan, New York,<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/sports/roger-angell-dead.html|title=Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|last = Garner|first = Dwight|date=May 20, 2022 |accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Reuters-Obit">{{cite news |last1=Trott |first1=Bill |title=Baseball writer Roger Angell dies at 101 |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/baseball-writer-roger-angell-dies-101-2022-05-20/ |access-date=May 21, 2022 |work=Reuters |date=May 20, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Angell was the son of [[Katharine Sergeant Angell White]], ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s first fiction editor, and the stepson of renowned essayist [[E.&nbsp;B. White]], but he was raised for the most part by his father, [[Ernest Angell]], an attorney who became head of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]].<ref name=lively>{{cite news |title=Roger Angell as lively as ever at age 85 |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/wires/05/17/2010.ap.bbo.roger.angell.adv21.1306/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622101408/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/wires/05/17/2010.ap.bbo.roger.angell.adv21.1306/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 22, 2011 |newspaper=Sports Illustrated |date=May 17, 2006}}</ref><ref name=ulin>{{cite news |last=Ulin |first=David L. |title=Roger Angell on what the dead don't know |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2012-nov-15-la-et-jc-roger-angell-new-yorker-20121115-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 15, 2012}}</ref><ref name=Influences>{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Smith |url=http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/17043/ |title=Influences: Roger Angell |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=May 21, 2006}}</ref> 

After graduating in 1938 from the [[Pomfret School]], he attended [[Harvard College]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Orodenker |contribution=Twentieth-Century American Sportswriters |title=Dictionary of Literary Biography |volume=171 |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale |year=1996 |isbn=0-8103-9934-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8oUAQAAIAAJ&q=Roger+Angell+Pomfret |page=5 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Verducci |first=Tom |url=https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/07/22/roger-angell-tom-verducci-hall-fame |title=The Passion of Roger Angell: The best baseball writer in America is also a fan - Sports Illustrated |publisher=Si.com |date=July 22, 2014 |accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref>