Roger Angell, legendary baseball writer and longtime New Yorker editor, dies at age 101

Roger Angell speaks after receiving the J.G. Taylor Spink Award during a ceremony at the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26, 2014, in Cooperstown, New York. Angell has died at age 101. (Mike Groll/AP)

NEW YORK — Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, has died. He was 101.

Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.