Roger Angell, American journalist, author, and editor (died 2022)

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."

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 103 days remain until the end of the year.