Farewell Roger Angell, you helped me fall in love with baseball and writing by psaundersdp
Angell once described Willie Mays chasing down a ball hit to deep center as “running so hard and so far that the ball itself seems to stop in the air and wait for him.”
Wrote Angell: “Gibson sounded almost like a veteran samurai warrior recalling an ancient code of pain and honor.” Angell was a man and a writer from a different era. Angell, like my father, helped me fall in love with baseball. “It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team,” he wrote in his book “Five Seasons.” “What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.
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