I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

 320. None of us is young this week and with death and calamity just down the street few of us vicarious any longer. 24 September 2001.

He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. Roger Angell (born September 19 1920) is an American essayist known for his writing on sports especially baseball.