which is titled Angell in the Outfield, and is about the wonderful writer Roger Angell, being honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame.
If you love baseball and/or love good writing and you do not already know the work of Roger Angell, long-time fiction editor of The New Yorker, it is long past time for you to address that deficit.
This column by Dowd lacks any snark.
It is a tribute to a great writer.
It is well written, for example (see below, my sneaky way to get you to keep reading!) -
It begins like this:
ROGER ANGELL takes off his brown J. Press sports coat and blue cap, yanks out his hearing aids, stashes his cane, and sits down for a shave and haircut at Delta barbershop at 72nd and Lex., the same spot he’s patronized for 40 years. “I don’t see Henry Kissinger doing any interviews in a barbershop,” he says dryly.Not bad writing, and a sense of the sharpness of mind of the 93 year old Angell, who stays sharp, according to the piece, by memorizing poetry and writing blogs. In the paragraph where she offers that, Dowd sources it by linking to This Old Man, a piece by Angell from the DON'T SHOOT ME! Read Maureen Dowd's column: