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May 20, 2022
Roger Angell, American sportswriter and author (born 1920)
Roger Angell
Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker. Sportswriter Jane Leavy called him "the Babe Ruth of baseball writers."
May 20
May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 225 days remain until the end of the year.