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RIP Roger Angell

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, May 20, 2022.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    One of the titans. RIP.


     
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  2. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Thank you for sharing.
     
  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    A member of the Hall of Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Good.
     
  4. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    There’s a passage in “Late Innings” about what it was like rooting for the Red Sox, circa 1978, that I used to show to every new writer we hired.
     
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  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    What can be said? All time all time baseball writer. One quirk I did note about Angell in a couple of press boxes. He really enjoyed seeing a good fight in the stands.
     
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  6. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    a giant to his rest

    may his memory be a blessing
     
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  7. MeanGreenATO

    MeanGreenATO Well-Known Member

    I really got into sports writing by reading BASW of the Century and came across Angell. Started to read more of his stuff and eventually bought some of his anthologies. I still re-read him all the time. Will never be anyone with a career like his.

    The story on Steve Blass has always stuck with me: Steve Blass’s Sudden Slump
     
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  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

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  9. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    The Summer Game, one of my favorite books, came out 50 years ago
    RIP
     
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  10. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    "Baseball's clock ticks inwardly and silently, and a man absorbed in a ball game is caught in a slow, green place of removal and concentration and in a tension that is screwed up slowly and ever more tightly with each pitcher's windup and with the almost imperceptible forward lean and little half-step with which the fielders accompany each pitch. Whatever the pace of the particular baseball game we are watching, whatever its outcome, it holds us in its own continuum and mercifully releases us from our own."

    Yep. That and Bart Giamatti's essay sum up why I love the game and why I wanted to be a part of it as a member of the media. There's truly nothing like the timelessness of being absorbed in -- and by -- a well-played game.

    Unlike almost all other team sports, time has no control over a baseball game, which makes it both finite and infinite. If you could somehow avoid making 27 outs, you could play forever. Baseball has the ability to stop time, and make you remember when you felt like summers could never end.

    RIP, good sir. Hope there are good seats behind home plate in the next existence.
     
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Man, this hurts. It was baseball writing, but with no deadline over his head, it was also literature. The Blass story has been mentioned, but another one that stand out now is a day he spent with Horace Stoneham bat Candlestick the last summer he owned the Giants. RIP.
     
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  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    If we were to choose THE ONE baseball summer of our lives, mine would be 1985. I loved that Dodgers team and hardly anything else existed. And then Jack Clark murdered me in the fall.
     
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