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Roger Angell

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Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920) is an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. [1]

43 relations: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Civil Liberties Union, Andy Warhol, Authors Guild, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Baseball Writers' Association of America, Christmas, Curator, Earl Weaver, Ernest Angell, George Polk Awards, Harvard University, J. G. Taylor Spink Award, Joe Bonomo, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Ken Burns, Los Angeles Times, Manhattan, Metastatic breast cancer, New York (magazine), New York (state), New York City, PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pomfret School, Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon, Salon (website), Shortstop, Sports Illustrated, Sports journalism, Spring training, Steve Blass, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Third baseman, Umberto Eco, United States, United States Army Air Forces, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Shawn, World War II, 1962 in literature.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Authors Guild

The Authors Guild is America's oldest and largest professional organization for writers and provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Baseball Writers' Association of America

The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) is a professional association for baseball journalists writing for daily newspapers, magazines and qualifying websites.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Earl Weaver

Earl Sidney Weaver (August 14, 1930 – January 19, 2013) was an American professional baseball player, Hall of Fame Major League manager, author, and television broadcaster.

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Ernest Angell

Ernest Angell (June 1, 1889 – January 11, 1973) served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union for 19 years, from 1950 to 1969.

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George Polk Awards

The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of prestigious American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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J. G. Taylor Spink Award

The J. G. Taylor Spink Award is the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

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Joe Bonomo

Joe Bonomo is an American essayist and rock and roll writer.

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Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Katharine Sergeant Angell White (September 17, 1892 – July 20, 1977) was a writer and the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960.

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Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Metastatic breast cancer

Metastatic breast cancer, also referred to as metastases, advanced breast cancer, secondary tumours, secondaries or stage 4 breast cancer, is a stage of breast cancer where the disease has spread to distant sites beyond the axillary lymph nodes.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

The PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing is awarded by the PEN American Center to honor "a nonfiction book about sports." The award was established in 2010 and is awarded to a title that is "biographical, investigative, historical, or analytical" in nature.

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Pomfret School

Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 360 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a population of 67,067 as of 2017.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Sports journalism

Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and competitions.

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Spring training

In Major League Baseball (MLB), spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.

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Steve Blass

Stephen Robert Blass (born April 18, 1942) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher and a current broadcast announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Third baseman

A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the "Whitney" – is an art museum located in Manhattan.

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William Shawn

William Shawn (August 31, 1907 – December 8, 1992) was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1962 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angell

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