Editing Roger Angell (section)

==Career==
In 1948, Angell was employed at ''[[Holiday (magazine)|Holiday Magazine]]'', a travel magazine that featured literary writers.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/holiday-magazine-history |title=The Visual and Writerly Genius of Holiday Magazine |last=Callahan |first=Michael |date=May 2013 |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=May 29, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> His earliest published works were pieces of short fiction and personal narratives, several of which were collected in ''The Stone Arbor and Other Stories'' (1960) and ''A Day in the Life of Roger Angell'' (1970).<ref name="Bonomo2019">{{cite book |last1=Bonomo |first1=Joe |title=No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing |year=2019 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-4962-1529-1 |pages=21, 76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeSKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 |language=en}}</ref>

Angell first contributed to ''The New Yorker'' while serving in Hawaii as editor of an Air Force magazine; his short story titled "Three Ladies in the Morning" was published in March 1944. He became ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s fiction editor in the 1950s, occupying the same office as his mother,<ref name="AP-Obit"/> and continued to write for the magazine until 2020.  "Longevity was actually quite low on his list of accomplishments", wrote his colleague [[David Remnick]]. "He did as much to distinguish ''The New Yorker'' as anyone in the magazine's nearly century-long history. His prose and his editorial judgment left an imprint that's hard to overstate."<ref name=Remnick>{{cite magazine |last=Remnick |first=David |date=May 20, 2022 |title=Remembering Roger Angell, Hall of Famer |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/remembering-roger-angell-hall-of-famer |access-date=May 21, 2022 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |publisher= }}</ref>

He first wrote professionally about baseball in 1962, when ''New Yorker'' editor [[William Shawn]] had him travel to [[Florida]] to write about [[spring training]].<ref name=Kettmann/><ref name=Influences/> His career as a baseball writer coincided with the first season of the [[New York Mets]]. His style of baseball writing was inspired, he said, by [[John Updike]]'s article on [[Ted Williams]]'s farewell to fans at [[Fenway Park]], "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu". Angell said "John had already supplied my tone, while also seeming to invite me to try for a good sentence now and then, down the line.”<ref name="nytimes1" /> His first two baseball collections were ''The Summer Game'' (1972) and ''Five Seasons'' (1977).<ref name="Bonomo2019a">{{cite book |last1=Bonomo |first1=Joe |title=No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing |date=2019 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-4962-1529-1 |pages=67, 193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeSKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 }}</ref> These were followed by ''Late Innings'' (1982) and ''[[Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion]]'' (1988). 

Angell has been called the "Poet Laureate of baseball" but he disliked the term.<ref name=Kettmann/><ref name=Influences/> In a review of ''Once More Around the Park'' for the ''Journal of Sport History'', Richard C. Crepeau wrote that "Gone for Good", Angell's essay on the career of [[Steve Blass]],{{#tag:ref|Originally published as "Down the Drain"<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Roger Angell |title=Down the Drain |url=http://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1975-06-23/flipbook/042/ |url-access=subscription |magazine=The New Yorker |location=New York |date=June 23, 1975 |access-date=February 9, 2021 |pages=42–59}}</ref> |group=lower-alpha}} "may be the best piece that anyone has ever written on baseball or any other sport".<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Richard C. |last=Crepeau |title=Review of ''Once More Around the Park''  |volume=29 |number=3 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH2002/JSH2903/jsh2903ad.pdf |magazine=Journal of Sport History |pages=510–12 }}</ref> Another essay of Angell's, "The Web of the Game", about the epic pitchers' duel between future [[Major League Baseball All-Star game|major-league All-Stars]] (and eventual teammates) [[Ron Darling]] and [[Frank Viola]] in the [[1981 NCAA Division I baseball tournament|1981 NCAA baseball tournament]], was called "perhaps the greatest baseball essay ever penned" by [[ESPN]] journalist [[Ryan McGee]] in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/baseball/story/_/id/31474244/ron-darling-frank-viola-ncaa-baseball-greatest-game-ever-40-years-on |title=Ron Darling, Frank Viola and NCAA baseball's greatest game ever, 40 years on |first=Ryan |last=McGee |website=ESPN.com |date=May 21, 2021 |accessdate=May 24, 2021}}</ref> Angell contributed commentary to the [[Ken Burns]] series ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'', in 1994.<ref name="Schudel2022">{{cite news |last1=Schudel |first1=Matt |title=Roger Angell, editor, baseball writer at the New Yorker, dies at 101 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/20/roger-angell-new-yorker-dead/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=May 20, 2022}}</ref>