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# Roger Angell

(1920–2022)   Journalist   United States

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Roger Angell was a journalist from the United States, best known for *The Elements of Style*.

## Quick Facts About Roger Angell

Born September 19, 1920

Died May 20, 2022

Nationality United States

Profession Journalist

Notable works The Elements of Style

Spouse Evelyn Ames Baker

## About Roger Angell

Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker. Sportswriter Jane Leavy called him "the Babe Ruth of baseball writers."

## Awards & Honors

George Polk Award Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

##  Quotes by Roger Angell

> [Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/baseball-s-absolute-unpredictability-makes-amateurs-of-us-all/)

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[Absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolutes/)

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> [Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/everyone-knows-the-best-volume-of-the-encyclopedia-is-the-one-with/)

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[Encyclopedia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/encyclopedia/)

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> [“field directorship because the Philadelphia front office”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/field-directorship-because-the-philadelphia-front-office/)

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[Field](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/field/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/roger-angell-18160_field_field-directorship-because-the-philadelp_2042655.png)

> [Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/those-who-live-by-the-wall-must-die-by-the-wall/)

[Roger Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-angell/)

[Dies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dies/)

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> [The best defense against partisanship is expertise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-best-defense-against-partisanship-is-expertise/)

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[Defense](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defense/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/roger-angell-18160_defense_the-best-defense-against-partisanship-is_1523002.png)

> [“my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/my-favorite-urban-flower-the-baseball-box-score/)

[Roger Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-angell/)

[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab5/roger-angell-18160_baseball_my-favorite-urban-flower-the-baseball-bo_275177.png)

> [Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/writing-is-hard-even-for-authors-who-do-it-all-the-time/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-knew-i-wasn-t-a-baseball-writer-i-was-scared-to-death-i-really-was/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dc/roger-angell-18160_baseball_i-knew-i-wasn-t-a-baseball-writer-i-was_3109846.jpg)

> [I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-think-i-wrote-once-that-baseball-in-many-ways-is-very-much-like/)

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[Ballgame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ballgame/)

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> [I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-felt-what-i-almost-always-feel-when-i-am-watching-a-ballgame-just/)

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[Ballgame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ballgame/)

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> [I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-ve-been-lucky-i-ve-met-a-lot-of-baseball-people-and-i-ve-learned-to/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/our-stories-about-our-own-lives-are-a-form-of-fiction-i-began-to-see/)

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[Fiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fiction/)

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> [We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/we-are-all-writers-and-readers-as-well-as-communicators-with-the-need/)

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[Almost perfect](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/almost-perfect/)

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> [What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/what-really-makes-baseball-so-hard-is-it-s-retributive-capacity-for/)

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> [The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-great-thing-about-catchers-is-that-they-do-a-lot-of-different/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/infield-practice-is-more-mystic-ritual-than-preparation-encouraging/)

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[Balls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balls/)

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> [“I couldn’t get to sleep until four in the morning. Nobody knew. You pick up the morning paper in Chicago, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-couldn-t-get-to-sleep-until-four-in-the-morning-nobody-knew-you/)

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[Constitutional right](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constitutional-right/)

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> [Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/friends-of-mine-said-later-that-they-had-been-riveted-by-a-postgame/)

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[Bad thing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-thing/)

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> [I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-m-feeling-great-well-pretty-great-unless-i-ve-forgotten-to-take-a/)

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[Cases](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cases/)

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> [Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/losing-is-the-bane-and-bugbear-of-every-professional-athlete-s/)

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[Athlete](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/athlete/)

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> [Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/cub-fans-by-consensus-are-the-best-in-baseball-year-after-year-in/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/baseball-s-time-is-seamless-and-invisible-a-bubble-within-which/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/life-is-tough-and-brimming-with-loss-and-the-most-we-can-do-about-it/)

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[Can do](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/can-do/)

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> [This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/this-was-a-new-recognition-that-perfection-is-admirable-but-a-trifle/)

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[Admirable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/admirable/)

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> [Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/sports-are-too-much-with-us-late-and-soon-sitting-and-watching-mostly/)

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[Attention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attention/)

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> [What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/what-the-dead-don-t-know-piles-up-though-we-don-t-notice-it-at-first/)

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[Breakfast](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/breakfast/)

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> [The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-press-box-at-wrigley-field-in-chicago-is-an-extended-narrow-shed/)

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[Access](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/access/)

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> [Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/since-baseball-time-is-measured-only-in-outs-all-you-have-to-do-is/)

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[Alive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alive/)

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> [Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/hold-a-baseball-in-your-hand-feel-the-ball-turn-it-over-in-your-hand/)

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[Balls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balls/)

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> [I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-don-t-read-scripture-and-cling-to-no-life-precepts-except-perhaps/)

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[Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/)

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> [Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/any-baseball-is-beautiful-no-other-small-package-comes-as-close-to/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [“Right from the beginning, I have been a Tiger fan and nothing else,” Max Lapides said this summer. “Other men can happily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/right-from-the-beginning-i-have-been-a-tiger-fan-and-nothing-else-max/)

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[Ball game](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ball-game/)

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> [Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/once-i-could-persuade-these-guys-that-all-i-wanted-to-hear-from-them/)

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[After](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/after/)

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> [Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/baseball-is-slovenly-and-excessive-in-midsummer-with-its-onrolling/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [“The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-fearful-happenings-of-the-second-game-need-not-be-lingered-over/)

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[1966](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1966-433/)

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## Roger Angell by topic

[Baseball (19)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/roger-angell/)

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