Roger Angell, who brought a fan’s perspective, an intellectual’s enlightenment and a poet’s lyrical touch to his essays on baseball for The New Yorker magazine, building a reputation as one of America’s elite baseball writers over six decades, died on Friday at the age of 101.

Mr Angell practically grew up in the halls of The New Yorker, where his mother, Katharine S White, was the longtime fiction editor. His stepfather was EB White, the renowned essayist whose supple, self-effacing prose became the hallmark of the magazine’s style and whose literary legacy included Charlotte’s Web.

Washington Post