I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

 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.