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Guide to the Papers of Roger Angell. 1960-1998

National Baseball Hall of Fame Library

National Baseball Hall of Fame

25 Main Street

Cooperstown, NY 13326

www.baseballhalloffame.org

This guide was prepared by Amanda Graham in June and July of 2007 and reviewed by

Claudette Scrafford and Andrew Newman in August 2007

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Collection Number: BA MSS 41

BL 7654.90

Title: Papers of Roger Angell

Inclusive Dates: 1960-1998 (bulk 1979-1998)

Extent: 27 linear feet (62 boxes, 5 oversized boxes)

Repository:

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

25 Main Street

Cooperstown, NY 13326

Abstract:

Roger Angell is the senior fiction editor and an eminent baseball essayist for The New Yorker

magazine. Typescripts, galley proofs, notepads, notes, audio recordings, transcripts, scorecards,

media notes, press releases, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, programs, guides,

photographs and correspondence document the author’s creative process over 38 years.

Acquisition Information:

The records were a gift from Roger Angell, and accessioned in two parts in 1990 and 1998.

See Also:

BA MSS 236 Angell Research & Scoring Notebooks, National Baseball Hall of Fame,

Cooperstown, NY

Preferred Citation:

Roger Angell Papers, BA MSS 41, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, National Baseball

Hall of Fame and Museum.

Access Restrictions:

1. Researchers wishing to examine the Roger Angell collection shall make written

application to the author.

2. Roger Angell shall notify the researcher/applicant and the National Baseball Library in

writing when permission is granted to examine the Roger Angell collection.

3. Roger Angell may designate a third party to review and approve or deny research

applications on his behalf during this lifetime or in the event of his death. In the event no

designee is named the librarian of the National Baseball Library shall have authority to

determine access to the Roger Angell collection.

4. Email [email protected] for more information.

mailto:[email protected]

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Copyright:

Private rights reside with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. For information

about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Library and Archives.

Processing Information:

These papers were arranged and described by Amanda Graham, Steele Intern, in 2007.

Biographical Sketch

Roger Angell (1920- ) is the senior fiction editor and an eminent baseball essayist for The New

Yorker magazine. His evocative essays, spanning over forty years, are told from a fan’s

perspective and celebrate the game’s leisurely pace and gradual rewards. Angell’s collective

work, writes Joe Pollock in The Sporting Scene Book Review (1972), “touches the heart and feel

and rhythm and pace of the game as few writers have.”

Roger Angell was born in New York City on September 19, 1920, to Katherine and Ernest

Angell. His father was a successful lawyer and his mother began serving as The New Yorker’s

fiction editor shortly after its inception in 1925. Soon after her divorce from Ernest in 1929,

Katharine Sergeant Angell married famed fiction author and New Yorker writer E. B. White, who

produced humor pieces for the magazine. At an early age, Angell showed an interest in

publishing and became editor of his school newspaper. In 1942, he graduated from Harvard and

went on to write and edit short stories and essays for the next decade, including pieces for the Air

Force’s Brief and Holiday magazine. He joined the staff of The New Yorker full time in 1956 as

a fiction editor and has since written fiction, humor, editorial comment, criticism, and sports

reports for the magazine.

In 1962, The New Yorker invited Angell to attend spring training and write a piece on baseball.

Upon his return, he authored his first extended baseball essay for the magazine’s “The Sporting

Scene” section, entitled “The Old Folks Behind Home”. Since that time, Angell has written two

to three lengthy baseball pieces each year. His work spans over forty years of the game, during

which time he has observed the rise of the franchise movement, the birth of free agency,

expansion teams, ballooning player salaries, and a growing awareness of drug use. To date,

Angell has written over one hundred articles for “The Sporting Scene”. In addition, collections

of Angell’s essays have been published in a number of well-received compilations (The Summer

Game (1972), Five Seasons (1977), Late Innings (1982), Season Ticket (1988), Once More

Around the Park (1991), and Game Time (2003),) Angell wrote his first full-length book, A

Pitcher’s Story: Innings with David Cone (2001), at the age of 81. In 2006, Angell published

“Let Me Finish,” a collection of autobiographical essays published over the previous three years.

References

Haynes, Jared. “They Look Easy, But They’re Hard: An Interview with Roger Angell.” Writing on the Edge 4 (Fall

1992).

Italie, Hillel. “Big Apple Angell: New Yorker baseball scribe still strong at 85.” Daily News, May 21, 2006.

Kettman, Steve. “Roger Angell.” Salon.com. Aug. 29, 2000.

http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/08/29/angell/index.html (accessed on July 17, 2007).

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Pollock, Joe. The Sporting News Book Review July 8 1972

“Roger Angell.” Dec. 24, 2006. http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Roger_Angell (accessed June 26, 2007).

Welch, Dave. “Roger Angell: Still Throwing Strikes.” Powells.com. Apr. 16, 2003.

http://www.powells.com/authors/angell.html (accessed on May 12, 2003).

Scope and Content Typescripts, galley proofs, notepads, notes, audio recordings, transcripts, scorecards, media

notes, press releases, printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs and correspondence

document author Roger Angell’s creative process over 38 years (67 boxes, 1907, 1960-1998).

His papers are arranged into three series: Series I. Baseball Articles and Related Material,

Series II. Books and Related Material, Series III. Other Works and Related Material,

Series IV. Correspondence, and Series V. General.

Series I. Baseball Articles and Related Material (62 boxes, 1962-1998) is the most extensive of

the series and consists of typescript drafts of Angell’s creative works at various stages

accompanied by related notes and other documentation in the form of handwritten and

typewritten notes, transcripts, scorecards, audio recordings of player, management, and media

interviews, and printed material including media notes and press releases, magazines, media

guides, and newspaper articles. His game notes are extensive, and though the bulk of their

volume is composed of media notes and press releases and other printed material not authored by

Angell, his handwritten notes and transcripts and his recorded interviews offer insights and

information unavailable elsewhere.

Series II. Books and Related Material (4 folders, 1977) is comparatively sparse, and contains a

typescript, correspondence, notes, and reviews related to the publishing of Five Seasons (1977).

Series III. Other Works and Related Material (1.5 boxes, 1960-1974) documents the writing of

some of Angell’s other New Yorker pieces, including movie reviews and other sports-related

essays.

Series IV. Correspondence (3 boxes, 1970-1995, bulk 1979-1995) is arranged into two subseries:

Reader Mail and Personal and Professional Correspondence. The first subseries (2.5 boxes) is

composed largely of reader mail received by Angell between 1979 and 1995, and is arranged

alphabetically by the author’s last name. Correspondence of a personal and professional nature

(3 folders, 1970-1972, 1981) makes up the second subseries.

Series V. General (1 folder, 1907, 1964-1995) includes unidentified and miscellaneous

documents.

Terms

List of Interviewees

Alderson, Dale

Alderson, Sandy

Allen, Maury

Altchek, Dr. Robert

Apodaca, Bob

Ashburn, Richie

Baker, Dusty

Bando, Sal

Banks, Ernie

Barrett, M.

Baylor, Don

Beard, Butch

Belinda, Stan

Blass, Steve

Blue, Vida

Blyleven, Burt

Bochte, Bruce

Bonds, Bobby

Boone, Bob

Bordick, Mike

Boros, Steve

Boyer, Clete

Brantley, Jeff

Brenly, Bob

Brett, George

Brock, Lou

Buckner, Bill

Buoey, Bob

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Burleson, Rick

Bush, Randy

Campbell, Bill

Cerutti, John

Cey, Ron

Chass, Murray

Clark, Will

Cohen, John

Cone, David

Cox, Bobby

Craig, Roger

Cuniberti, Betty

Curtis, John

Darling, Ron

Daughty, Larry

Davis, Tony

Dawson, Andre

DeCines, Doug

Dempsey, Rick

Dibble, Ron

Dotson, Richard

Duncan, Dave

Duncan, Mariano

Durocher, Leo

Dyer, Mike

Dykstra, Lenny

Eckersley, Dennis

Eisenhardt, Roy

Evans, Darrel

Fairly, Ron

Fehr, Don

Fetter, Donald

Fimrite, Ron

Fisk, Carlton

Flanagan, Mike

Ford, Dan

Ford, Whitey

Foster, George

Fox, Eric

Franco, John

Frey, Jim

Gaetti, Gary

Gaherin, John J

Gammons, Peter

Garcia, Dave

Gardner, Billy

Garrelts, Scott

Garvey, Steve

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Gibson, Bob

Giusti, Dave

Gooden, Dwight

Green, Dallas

Greenwald, Hank

Griffey, Ken

Gross, Jane

Gwynn, Tony

Haas, Moose

Haas, Walter

Haller, Bill

Harrelson, Bud

Harrelson, Ken

Harvey, Bryant

Healey, Fran

Heaton, Neal

Herman, Robin

Hernandez, Keith

Hershiser, Orel

Herzog, Whitey

Holtzman, Jerome

Horton, Ricky

Houk, Ralph

Howser, Dick

Hughson, Ted

Hurst, Bruce

Kelly, Tom

Keough, Matt

Kill, Jim

Kittell, Ron

Kittell, Linda

Kittle, Ron

Koufax, Sandy

Jackson, Phil

Jackson, Reggie

Jocketty, Walt

John, Tommy

Johnson, Dave

Kennedy, Terry

Keough, Matt

Kiner, Ralph

King, Bill

Knoop, Bobby

LaCoss, Mike

LaRussa, Tony

Lavalliere, Mike

Law, Vance

Law, Vern

Lawless, Tom

Lefebvre, Jim

Leiter, Al

Leyland, Jim

Liebrandt, Charlie

Lockman, Whitey

Ludtke, Melissa

Maddox, Elliott

Madder, Billy

Maloney, Dave

Malzone, Frank

Martin, Billy

Martinez, Buck

Matthews, Eddie

Matthews, Gary

Maxwell, Del

Mayne, Brent

May, Milt

Mays, Willie

McCarver, Tim

McCatty, Steve

McCovey, Willie

McNamara, John

McRae, Hal

McGraw, Tug

McIlvaine, Joe

McKay, Dave

Mele, Sam

Mercer, Bobby

Mifflin, Laurie

Miller, Marvin

Miller, Ray

Miller, Ron

Mitterwald, George

Monbouquette, Bill

Morgan, Joe

Morris, Jack

Murphy, Dwayne

Musso, Jim

Nealey, Fran

Niekro, Phil

Norris, Mike

Ojeda, Bob

Ownbey, Rick

Palmer, Jim

Paul, Don

Pesky, Johnny

Phillips, B. J.

Phillips, Tony

Piniella, Lou

Pinson, Vada

Plagenhoef, Vern

Pulsipher, Bill

Quirk, Jamie

Quisenberry, Dan

Rader, Doug

Regan, Phil

Remy, Jerry

Righetti, Dave

Rigney, Bill

Ringolsby, Tracy

Roarye, Mike

Rogers, Buck

Rose, Pete

Rosen, Al

Rudi, Joe

Salter, Stephanie

Schmidt, Mike

Schwartz, Jack

Scott, Gary

Seaver, Tom

Shah, Diane

Shamsky, Art

Shannon, Mike

Shaughnessy, Dan

Sheppard, Bob

Simmons, Lon

Simmons, Ted

Sisler, Dick

Slaught, Don

Smith, Janet Marie

Smith, Tal

Smithson, Mike

Snow, S. T.

Solomon, Dr. Joel

Splittorff, Paul

Stanley, F.

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Starette, Herm

Staub, Rusty

Stewart, Dave

Stewart, Sammy

Stier, Kit

Stoneham, Horace

Stottlemyre, Mel

Strawberry, Darrel

Sutcliffe, Rick

Sutton, Don

Swoboda, Ron

Tanner, Chuck

Templeton, Garry

Tewksbury, Bob

Thornton, Andre

Thrift, Syd

Toma, George

Toomey, Jim

Torborg, Jeff

Torre, Joe

Trebelhorn, Tom

Unser, Del

Valentin, Bobby

Viola, Frank

Virdon, Bull

Walk, Bob

Wathan, John

Weaver, Earl

Welch, Bob

White, Bill

White, Frank

Wight, Bill

Williams, Billy

Williams, Dick

Williams, Matt

Williams, Stan

Williams, Ted

Wilson, Paul

Winfield, Dave

Wood, Smokey Joe

Yastrzemski, Carl

Series I. Baseball Articles and Related Material (62 boxes, 1960-1998, bulk 1979-1998)

Series Description

This series consists of typescript drafts of Angell’s “The Sporting Scene” baseball pieces at

various stages followed by extensive notes he referred to in writing his articles, all arranged

chronologically by season. Related materials are grouped according to the part of the season

they document and ordered by form based on the insight they offer into the Angell’s creative

process. Typescripts come first, followed by handwritten notes, audio interviews and transcripts,

scorecards, printed material such as media notes and press releases, magazines, newspapers,

programs, media guides, printed articles, and finally travel and logistical papers. Newspaper and

oversized clippings, many of which include Angell’s handwritten notes, are housed separately in

oversized boxes and ordered chronologically (boxes 63-67, 1962-1998). In addition to his loose-

leaf notes, Angell took down writing ideas, game notes, and some interview information in spiral

notepads. Angell kept copious notes on the games he attended, and the bulk of his papers cover

spring training and postseason games. His interviews in particular offer invaluable insight into

the greatest players and managers of the last four decades. Notable persons interviewed include

George Brett, Bob Gibson, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Gwynn, Reggie

Jackson, Pete Rose, Sandy Koufax, Smokey Joe Wood, Ted Williams, and Frank Robinson.

“The Old Folks Behind Home” (April 7, 1962)

Box 1 Folder 1 Typescripts with corrections (2)

Clipping of article

Spring Training

Folder 2 Notes, handwritten

Programs with scorecards (5)

Press release

Media guides (2)

Other printed material

“The ‘Go!’ Shouters” (June 16, 1962)

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Folder 3 Typescripts with corrections (2)

Clipping of article

Regular Season

Folder 4 Notes, handwritten and typed

Programs with scorecards

OVR Box 63 Folder 1 Newspaper clippings

“A Tale of Three Cities” (Oct. 20, 1962)

Box 1 Folder 5 Typescript with corrections

Postseason


National League Playoff Series

Notes, handwritten


World Series



“S is for So Lovable” (May 25, 1963)


Regular Season





“Four Taverns in the Town” (Oct. 26, 1963)


World Series


“A Clean, Well-Lighted Cellar” (May 30, 1964)


Regular Season

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Printed Material


“Two Strikes on the Image” (Oct. 24, 1964)


World Series



Scorecards (3)

Media notes and press releases

Magazine

“The Odd Couple” (Oct. 30, 1965)


World Series

Folder 6 Notepad

Notes, handwritten and typed


Scorecards (5)


Printed material

Folder 7 Travel and logistical documents

“The Cool Bubble” (May 14, 1966)


Regular Season


Scorecard

Programs (2)

Other printed material re:Astrodome


“A Terrific Strain” (Oct. 29, 1966)


World Series

Folder 4 Notepads (2)

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Notes, handwritten


Printed material

Magazine

“The Flowering and Subsequent Deflowering of New England”

(Oct. 28, 1967)

Folder 5 Typescript with corrections

Regular Season

Notepads (4)

Folder 6 Printed material


Magazine clippings


World Series

Printed material

Scorebook, blank


“The Short Season” (April 13, 1968)


Spring Training

Notepads (2)



Scorecards (2)


“The Series” (Oct. 26, 1968)


World Series

Notepads (2)


Scorecards (3)


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“The Leaping Corpse, The Bombed Pill, The Shallow Cellar,

The French Pastime, The Walking Radio, The Full Aviary, and

Other Summer Mysteries” (Aug. 9, 1969)


Regular Season

Folder 6 Notepads (4)

Typescript notes and letters re:article



Scorecards (7)




“Days and Nights with the Unbored” (Nov. 1, 1969)


National League Championship Series

Notepad




World Series

Notepad

Box 5 Folder 1 Notes, handwritten


Magazine

OVR Box 63 Folder 2 Newspaper clipping

“The Baltimore Vermeers” (Oct. 31, 1970)


“Part of a Season: Bay and Back Bay” (June 19, 1971)


Regular Season

Notepads (3)

Folder 4 Media notes and press releases


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“Some Pirates and Lesser Men” (Nov. 6, 1971)


American League Championship Series



Notepad

World Series

Notepads (2)

Scorecard


“Starting to Belong” (1972)


Regular Season

Notepads (4)


Scorecard

Printed material

OVR Box 63 Folder 3 Newspaper

“Buttercups Rampant” (Nov. 11, 1972)



Notepad


Scorecards (2)


Magazine clippings



Box 6 Notepad


Scorecard

World Series

Notepads (2)


Scorecards (2)

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Printed material

Magazine clippings


1973 Preseason Essay

Box 6 Folder 4 Typescript with corrections and notes

“Season Lightly” (July 16, 1973)


Regular Season

Notepads (8)

Folder 6 Programs with scorecards (6)

Scorecards (9)



“Three for the Tigers” (Sept. 17, 1973)


Galley proofs with corrections (3)

Notepads (3)


Correspondence with Detroit fans




“The Long March” (Nov. 19, 1973)

Box 7 American League Championship Series

Notepad



Notepad

Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (5)

World Series

Notepads (3)

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“Landscape, With Figures” (July 15, 1974)

Regular Season

Notepads (4)

“How the West was Won” (Oct. 1974)


Regular Season

Notepad


Scorecards (3)


Magazine



Box 8 Notepad



Notepad



World Series

Notepads (2)


Scorecards (2)


“On the Sunny Side of the Street” (April 14, 1975)


Spring Training

Notepads (4)



Scorecards (3)


“Gone for Good” (June 1975)


Notepads (3)

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Folder 3 Audio recordings (2 cassettes)

Steve Blass

Transcripts for cassettes 1-4 and Dave Giusti interview


Scorecard


“The Companions of the Game” (Sept. 22, 1975)


Notepad

Audio recording (1 cassette)

Horace Stoneham, Jack Schwartz

Notes, handwritten

“Agincourt and After” (Nov. 17, 1975)

Regular Season

Notepads (6)


Program with scorecard

Scorecards (9)





Box 10 Notepads (2)

Folder 2 Scorecards (3)


World Series

Notepads (4)

“In the Counting House” (May 10, 1976)

Folder 3 Typescripts with corrections, mixed (2)

Spring Training

Notepads (6)

Box 11 Folder 1 Notes, handwritten and typed


Scorecards (2)


Magazine clippings

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“Scout” (Aug. 16, 1976)


Galley proof with corrections

Notepads (3)


Letter

Scouting forms, blank

Scorecards (3)

Magazine clipping


“Stories for a Rainy Afternoon” (1976)


“Cast a Cold Eye” (Nov. 22, 1976)

Regular Season

Notepads (4)


Scorecards (6)


Magazine clippings



Postseason

Box 11 Folder 7 Notes, handwritten and typed, on interviews with

Marvin Miller and John J. Gaherin

Magazine clippings

Magazine


Box 12 Notepad


Scorecard



Box 12 Notepad


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Scorecards (2)



World Series

Box 12 Notepads (2)



Scorecards (6)


Yearbook, Philadelphia Phillies


“The Long Green” (Apr. 25, 1977)


Spring Training

Notepads (3)



Scorecards (5)



Magazine clipping

Program

“Several Stories with Sudden Endings” (Nov. 14, 1977)


Regular Season

Box 13 Notepads (4)



Scorecards (6)


Magazine

Program



Box 13 Notepad


Scorecards (4)

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Notepad

Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (4)


World Series

Notepads (4)

“Voices of Spring” (Apr. 24, 1978)


Spring Training



Cassette 1: Frank White, Peter Gammons

Transcripts, handwritten and typed, of interviews

Reggie Jackson, Peter Gammons, John

Curtis


Scorecards (11)


Magazine clippings



“City Lights: Heartthrobs, Prodigies, Winners, Lost Children”

(Nov. 20, 1978)

Box 13 Folder 5 Typescript and fragments

Regular Season

Notepads (9)





Notepad

Folder 3 Program with scorecard

Scorecards (2)


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World Series


Program with scorecards for all games


“Sharing the Beat” (Apr. 9, 1979)


Folder 2 Galley proofs (3)


Letters to Angell (3)

Notepads (6), with interview notes and transcripts


Cassette 1: Robin Herman

Cassette 2: Maury Allen

Cassette 3: Jerome Holtzman

Cassette 4: Melissa Ludtke

Cassette 5: Stephanie Salter

Cassette 6: Jane Gross

Transcripts and notes on interviews

Jane Gross, Murray Chass, Stephanie Salter, Laurie

Mifflin, Diane Shah, Robin Herman, Dave

Maloney, Melissa Ludtke, Maury Allen, Betty

Cuniberti, B. J. Phillips, Butch Beard, Phil Jackson,

Darrel Evans, Vida Blue, Jerome Holtzman

Folder 5 Legal documents – affidavits and memoranda

Box 16 Folders 1- 4 Printouts of magazine and newspaper articles

“Walking into the Picture” (Apr. 23, 1979)


Spring Training


Transcripts of interviews, handwritten and typed

Ted Simmons, Bill Rigney


Scorecards (6)


“Wilver’s Way” (Nov. 26, 1979)

Box 17 Folder 1 Typescripts and fragments (3)

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Regular Season

Notepads (5)

Folder 2 Audio recording (1 cassette)

Earl Weaver

Transcript of cassette




Folder 5 Magazines



Box 18 Notepad


Scorecard



Notepad

Notes, handwritten

Scorecard


Program

World Series

Notepads (3)


Transcript for cassette


Media guides with scorecards for games 1-5 (2)

Scorecards (3)


Transcript for cassette

Lou Brock


Program

Magazine clipping


“A Learning Spring” (Apr. 28, 1980)


Spring Training

Notepads (4)

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Transcripts of interviews, typed

Matt Keough, Dave Garcia, Billy Martin,

Elliott Maddox, Earl Weaver, Ted Williams,

Chuck Tanner, and Dick Howser


Scorecards (8)


Magazine clippings


“Distance” (Sept. 22, 1980)


Notepads (3)



Transcripts, selected, of interviews

Bill White, Jim Toomey, Pete Rose, Joe Torre, Dick

Sisler, Del Maxwell, Mike Shannon, Tim

McCarver, Bob Buoey

“Pluck and Luck” (Nov. 24, 1980)

Regular Season

Notepads (5)

Box 20 Folder 1 Audio recording (1 cassette)

Steve Stone

Scorecards (10)


General Postseason

Folder 2 Audio recordings (2 cassette)

Cassette 1: Steve McCatty, Geoge

Mitterwald, Mike Norris

Cassette 2: Tug McGraw, Bull Virdon, Tal

Smith

World Series

Notepads (2)



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“One Hard Way to Make Living” (May 4, 1981)


Spring Training

Notepads (4)

Box 21 Folder 1 Audio recordings (8 cassettes), cassettes 2-9

Transcripts and notes, handwritten and typed

Cassette 1: Eddie Matthews, Roy Eisenhardt

Cassette 2: Billy Williams, Bill Buckner,

Jim Lefebvre

Cassette 3: Tony Davis

Cassette 4: Bill Rigney, Sal Bando, Ted

Simmons

Cassette 5: Ken Harrelson

Cassette 6: Mike Schmidt, Richie Ashburn,

Del Unser

Cassette 7: Reggie Jackson, Lou Brock,

Keith Hernandez, Garry

Templeton

Cassette 8: George Foster, Ken Griffey, Jim

Frey

Cassette 9: Art Shamsky, Ralph Kiner, Joe

Torre

Folder 2 Notes, typed


Scorecards (8)


“The Web of the Game” (July 20, 1981)


Notepad


Transcript, handwritten, of cassette

Smokey Joe Wood


Letters with enclosures (4)

Scorecard


Magazines (2)

Programs (2)



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“In the Country” (Aug. 17, 1981)


Notepads (2)

Box 22 Folder 1 Audio recording (2 cassettes)

Ron and Linda Kittell

Transcript and notes on interviews

Notes, handwritten



“Asterisks” (Nov. 30, 1981)

Box 22 Folder 2 Transcript with corrections

Regular Season

Notepads (5)

Folder 3 Program with scorecard

Scorecards (8)


Steve Garvey



Postseason

Notepad

Division series


Scorecards (9)





Scorecards (2)



Notes, handwritten

Guide with scorecard

Scorecard


World Series

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Notepads (2)


Scorecards (7)



Travel and logistical documents

“For Openers” (May 10, 1982)

Spring Training Box 23 Folder 2 Audio recordings (2 cassettes)

Transcripts, handwritten, of cassettes and Arizona

interviews


Notes, typed, of interviews

Tommy John

Bill Monbouquette


Scorecards (6)


“Streakers” (Nov. 29, 1982)


Regular Season

Notepads (6)


Letters with enclosures (2)

Box 24 Folder 1 Scorecards (20), 1 blank


Media guide

Magazine



Postseason

Box 24 Notepad



Scorecards (3)


Media guide

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Program


Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (3)


Program

World Series

Notepads (2)


Scorecards (7)


Magazine

“Easy Lessons” (May 2, 1983)



Spring Training

Notepad




Scorecards (8)

“Being Green” (1983)


Spring Training 1981 – Regular Season 1983

Notepads (5)

Folder 4 Audio recordings (10 cassettes, 1981-1983)

Transcripts of cassettes 1-9

Cassette 1: 1981 – Roy Eisenhardt

Cassette 2: Jan. 1982 – Roy Eisenhardt,

Walter Haas

Cassette 3: Jan. 1982 – Dave McKay,

Dwayne Murphy

Cassette 4: Jan. 1982 – Matt Keough, Roy

Eisenhardt

Cassette 5: June 1982 – Roy Eisenhardt



Cassette 8: May 1983 – Roy Eisenhardt

Cassette 9: May 1983 – Rou Eisenhardt

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Letters (2)

Scorecards (5)


Media guide

Magazines (4)

Yearbook, Oakland Athletics

“A Calm Feeling” (Nov. 28, 1983)

Regular Season

Notepads (3)


Lee Elia at April 29 press conference


Notes, interview with Susan Treiman

Letters with attachments (3)

Scorecards (7), 2 blank





Scorecards (3)



Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (3)


General Postseason

Media guide

Notepad

World Series

Box 27 Notepad




Jim Palmer, Jim Musso, Sammy Stewart,

Joe Morgan, Dan Ford, Pete Rose


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“In the Fire” (Mar. 12, 1984)


Notepad


Transcripts, handwritten and typed, of cassettes 1-4

Cassette 1: Leo Durocher, Bob Boone

Cassette 2: Milt May, Bill Haller, Ted Simmons

Cassette 3: Ted Simmons

Cassette 4: Dave Duncan, Carlton Fisk

Notes, handwritten

Scorecard

Folder 4 Magazines (4)


“My Summer Vacation” (May 7, 1984)


Spring Training

Box 28 Notepads (2)


Transcripts, handwritten and typed, of cassettes

Cassette 1: Tom Seaver, Peter Gammons,

John Cerutti

Cassette 2: Don Sutton, Jim Frey, Steve

Boros, Reggie Jackson

Cassette 3: Rusty Staub, Joe Morgan

Notes, handwritten


Scorecards (4)


Magazines (2)


“Tiger, Tiger” (Dec. 3, 1984)


Regular Season

Notepads (5)


Transcripts, selected, of 3 cassettes (cassettes not

included)

Cassette 1: Jim Frey, Gary Matthews

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Cassette 2: Mike Smithson, Billy Gardner,

Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden,

Rusty Staub, Ernie Banks

Cassette 3: Dick Williams, Roger Craig,

Castillo, Jack Morris



Magazine


General Postseason

Box 29 Notepad


Media guides (2)


Notes, handwritten

Transcript, unrecorded interview with Darrell Evans

Scorecards (2)




Scorecards (6)


World Series

Notepads (2)


Scorecards (2)

Media guide with scorecard (1)


Program



“Taking Infield” (May 13, 1985)


Spring Training

Notepads (2)


Transcripts, selected, handwritten and typed, of

cassettes

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Cassette 1: Ted Williams, John Cohen, Jerry

Remy

Cassette 2: Reggie Jackson, Steve Garvey

Cassette 3: Clete Boyer, Bill Rigney, Jim

Frey


Box 30 Folder 1 Scorecards (12)



“Alfresco” (Aug. 5, 1985)

Regular Season

Box 30 Notepads (3)


Notes, typed, interview with Buck Martinez

Scorecards (13)


Magazine


“Quis” (Sept. 1985)


Notepad

Box 31 Folder 1 Audio recordings (5 cassettes)


Cassette 1: 1981 – Eisenhardt

Cassette 2: Dan Quisenberry, Earl Weaver, Paul

Splittorff

Cassette 3: Dan Quisenberry, Mike LaCoss, Dick

Howser, Bob Boone, George Toma

Cassette 4: Dan Quisenberry

Cassette 5: Dick Howser, Jim Frey, Dan

Quisenberry




Photocopies of magazine and newspaper articles

Magazine clipping


“Catching Up” (1985)

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Regular Season


Letters (2)

Scorecards (9)



General Postseason

Box 31 Notepad



Scorecards (7)




Scorecards (5)


World Series

Notepad



Bill Campbell, Dick Howser

Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (7)


Magazine

Program



“The Cheers for Keith” (May 5, 1986)


Notepad



Dr. Joel Solomon

Notes, handwritten and typed, of unrecorded interviews

Don Fehr, Sandy Alderson, Bruce Bochte

Notes, handwritten

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Regular Season

Box 33 Folder 1 Audio recordings (4 cassettes, tape 4 not included)

Transcripts for cassettes 1-5

Cassette 1: Bobby Valentin, Bob

Tewksbury, Lou Piniella, Kaat,

Earl Weaver, Hal McRae

Cassette 2: Charlie Liebrandt, Willie

McCovey, Steve Garvey, Sal

Bando

Cassette 3: Sal Bando, Moose Haas, Reggie

Jackson, Don Sutton, Jim Frey,

Rick Burleson, Ron Kittle

Cassette 4: Bruce Bochte, Rick Ownbey,

Whitey Herzog, Johnson, Mel

Stottlemyre, Ron Darling, Buck

Martinez

Cassette 5: Pete Rose




Magazine clipping



“Fortuity” (Sept. 1, 1986)


Regular Season

Notepads (2)


Transcripts of cassettes

Cassette 1: Don Baylor, Tony LaRussa,

Bruce Bochte

Cassette 2: Tom Seaver, Sandy Alderson

Cassette 3: Roger Craig, Jerome Holtzman,

Scott Garrelts, Ron Cey, Bob

Brenly





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“Not So, Boston” (Dec. 8, 1986)




Regular Season

Notepads (3)




Postseason

Box 34 Notepads (2)

Media guides (4)


Folder 4 Lenny Dykstra, Darrel Strawberry, Doug

DeCines



Scorecards (7)




Scorecards (6)


World Series

Notepads (2)


Transcripts, selected, handwritten, of cassettes

Cassette 1: Bruce Hurst, Bill Rigney, Bob

Ojeda, Ron Darling, John

McNamara




Program

Media guide

“The Arms Talks” (May 4, 1987)

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Spring Training

Notepads (2)



Cassette 1: Mariano Duncan, Joe Rudi,

Steve Garvey, Sandy Alderson,

Ron Swoboda, Herm Starette,

Doug DeCines, Andre Thornton

Cassette 2: Roger Craig, Phil Niekro, Reggie

Jackson

Cassette 3: Roger Craig, Bob Ojeda, Keith

Hernandez, Bill Rigney, F.

Stanley, Ted Hughson, Ron

Darling

Cassette 4: Syd Thrift




Travel and logistical information

“Up at the Hall” (Aug. 31, 1987)


Notepad


Transcripts, handwritten, of cassettes


News releases

Other printed material re: National Baseball Hall of Fame


“Get Out Your Handkerchiefs” (Dec. 7, 1987)


Regular Season

Notepads (2)



Letter




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General Postseason

Box 37 Notepads (2)


Audio recordings (2 cassettes)

Cassette 1: Frank Viola, Ricky Horton, Burt

Blyleven

Cassette 2: Gary Gaetti, Tom Lawless, Burt

Blyleven

Magazines (2) – San Francisco Giants

Media guides (4) – Detroit Tigers, Minnesota

Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets

Season reviews (2) – Toronto Blue Jays, San

Francisco Giants




Scorecards (4)



Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (5)


World Series

Notepads (2)


Scorecards (8)



“A Heart for the Game” (May 2, 1988)


Spring Training

Notepads (3)


Notes on interviews, handwritten

Transcripts, selected, of cassettes 1-4

Cassette 1: Boone, Bryant Harvey, Roger

Craig

Cassette 2: Tony Gwynn, Richard Dotson,

John Wathan, Dan Quisenberry,

Darrel Evans

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Cassette 3: Tom Kelly, Bud Harrelson, Pete

Rose, Mike Schmidt

Cassette 4: Dennis Eckersley, Matt

Williams, Bill Rigney

“Celebration” (Aug. 22, 1988)




Transcripts of cassettes 1-4

A. Bartlett Giamatti


Articles authored by Giamatti

Articles re:Giamatti

OVR Box 67 Folder 7 Magazines

“Hard Times (The Movie)” (Dec. 5, 1988)

Regular Season


Scorecards (18)

Letters, addressed to Angell with clipping

enclosures

Folder 2, 3 Media notes and press releases





Scorecards (4)





Scorecards (7)

World Series


Letters addressed to Angell re:World Series


Transcripts of unrecorded interviews

Sandy Alderson, Orel Hershiser, Rick

Dempsey

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Scorecards (5)


“State of the Art” (May 8, 1989)

Spring Training

Notepads (2)


Transcripts, selected, of cassettes

Cassette 1: Tony LaRussa, Dave Winfield,

Jerome Holtzman, Whitey Ford,

Ron Darling, Tim McCarver,

Dan Quisenberry

Cassette 2: Dave Stewart, Ron Swoboda,

Bill Rigney

Cassette 3: Dave Duncan, Dave Johnson,

Ralph Houk., Ted Simmons

Cassette 4: Jim Frey, Whitey Lockman, Tom

Trebelhorn





“No, But I Saw the Game” (July 31, 1989)


Box 41 Folder 1 Notes, handwritten and typed re:films

Eight Men Out, Major League, Field of Dreams,

Bull Durham, Pride of the Yankees, Bang the Drum

Slowly, The Natural, Elmer the Great

“The Bay and Before” (Dec. 11, 1989)


Regular Season

Notepads (6)


Scorecards (20)




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General Postseason

Box 42 Folder 1 Postseason guides (5) – Los Angeles

Dodgers, New York Mets, Milwaukee

Brewers, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs



Scorecards (5)



Scorecards (7)

World Series

Notepads (2)

“The Pits and the Pendulum” (May 21, 1990)


Spring Training

Notebook


Cassette 1: Janet Marie Smith

Cassette 2: Dale Alderson, Tony LaRussa,

Bob Welch

Cassette 3: Jim Frey, Doug Rader, Tony

LaRussa, Bill Rigney, Tom

Kelly, Donald Fetter, Bob

Boone, Vada Pinson

Cassette 4: Tony Phillips

Transcripts, selected, of cassettes 2 and 3

Notes, typed and handwritten

Scorecards (13)



Folder 4 Other printed material re:ballparks (Baltimore,

Toronto, and Chicago)


“Midterm” (July 16, 1990)


Galley proofs with corrections (2)

Regular Season

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Notepads (2)



Cassette 1: Ray Miller, Jim Leyland, Milt

May, Neal Heaton, Ray Miller

Cassette 2: Larry Daughty, Don Slaught,

Mike Lavalliere, Stan Belinda

Cassette 3: Jeff Torborg, Don Paul, Billy

Madder, Jim Kill


Scorecards (6)

Folder 2 Press Clippings


“Tell Me a Story” (1990)


Regular Season


Scorecards (17), 2 blank






Cassette 1: Dave Duncan, Jamie Quirk,

Sandy Koufax, Stan Williams,

Ron Dibble

Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (4)


OVR Box 66 Folder 3 Newspaper clipping


Box 45 Folder 2 Notes, handwritten and typed, all games

Transcripts of interviews, recorded and unrecorded


World Series

Notepads (2)



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Scorecards (4)


General Season


News releases

“Homeric Tales” (1991)


Typescript fragments

Spring Training

Box 46 Notepads (2)


Guide to recordings

Transcripts, selected, of cassettes 1-7

Cassette 1: Matt Williams, Al Rosen, Ron

Fimrite, Ron Fairly, Bill King, Kit

Stier, Vern Law

Cassette 2: Tracy Ringolsby, Vern

Plagenhoef, Vern Law, Lon

Simmons

Cassette 3: Roger Craig, Dave Righetti,

Vern Law, Sandy Alderson

Cassette 4: Will Clark, Willie Mays, Ron

Fairly, M. Barrettt, Terry Kennedy,

Mike Roarye, Vance Law, Andre

Dawson, Jim Frey, Gary Scott, Rick

Sutcliffe

Cassette 5: Randy Bush, Bill Rigney, Dusty

Baker, Mariano Duncan

Cassette 6: Tim McCarver, Stan Williams,

Fran Nealey, Lou Piniella, Ron

Darling, David Cone

Cassette 7: Johnny Pesky, Sam Mele, Frank

Malzone, Carl Yastrzemski, Dan

Shaughnessy






“Ninety Feet” (1991)

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Regular Season

Notepads (3)





General Postseason

Notepad




Scorecards (3)




Scorecards (6)


World Series


Scorecards (7)


“Early Innings” (Feb. 1992)



Clippings

“Dinosaur” (1992)


Typescripts without corrections (2)

Class A Minor League

Notepad



Oneonta Yankees team

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Scorecards (3)



“Shades of Blue” (Dec. 7, 1992)


Spring Training

Folder 3 Transcripts of interviews (recordings not included)

Notepad

Notes, handwritten

Regular Season

Notepads (2)


Cassette 1: George Brett

Cassette 2: Dave Duncan, Eric Fox, Mike

Bordick, Ron Darling

Cassette 3: Sandy Alderson

Transcripts, selected, of cassettes 1 and 2 and

unrecorded interviews


Scorecards (2)



General Postseason

Box 48 Notepad

Media guide



Scorecards (6)




Audio recordings (1 cassette)


Jim Leyland, Bobby Bonds, Bob Walk

Scorecards (7)


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World Series

Notepads (2)


Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (6)

General Season


Letters (4)


“Put me in Coach” (1993)



Typescript without corrections

Spring Training

Notepads (2)



Cassette 1: Ron Darling, Bill Rigney, Mike

Dyer, Walt Jocketty, John

Wathan, Buck Rogers, Bobby

Knoop, S. T. Snow, Billy

Williams

Cassette 2: Tom Trebelhorn, Hank

Greenwald, Donald Fehr, Bob

Tewksbury

Notes, handwritten



“Oh, What a Lovely War” (Nov. 22, 1993)

Regular Season

Notepad



Bob Sheppard

Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (7)


Box 50 Folder 2 Media guide


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Folder 3 American League Championship Series


Scorecards (6)




Scorecards (6)



World Series

Notepads (3)


Letter

Scorecards (6)



“Called Strike” (May 22, 1995)

1994 and Preseason

Notepads (3)


Scorecard

Press release

Folder 3 Printed material re:player strike

Spring Training

Notepads (2)

Notes, handwritten


OVR Box 67 Folder 2 Newspaper printouts

“The Game’s the Thing” (Nov. 27, 1995)

General Postseason

Box 51 Notepads (2)


Division Series


Scorecards (5)

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Notepads (2)


Scorecards (6), with duplicates



World Series

Box 52 Notepads (2)


Scorecards (6)


OVR Box 67 Folder 2 Newspaper clippings and printouts

“Conic Projection” (May 20, 1996)

Box 53 Notepads (2)



Cassette 1: David Cone, Tony LaRussa, David

Duncan, Gary Gaetti

Cassette 2: George Brett, David Cone, Joe Torre

Cassette 3: Mel Stottlemyre, Dallas Green. Fran

Healey, Frank Cashen, Joe McIlvaine,

Brent Mayne, Paul Wilson

Cassette 5: David Cone


Scorecards (14)



“West Side Story” (July 15, 1996)

Regular Season and All-Star Game

Box 53 Notepads (2)


Scorecards (6)


“One for the Good Guys” (Nov. 25, 1996)


Division series

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Box 54 Notepad





Box 54 Notepad



Scorecards (5)



Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (2)

World Series

Notepads (2)



Scorecards (5)


Folder 5 Media guide


Unreferenced Spring Training Notes (1997)

Box 55 Notepads (2)


Scorecards (11)


Printouts, news articles

Other printed material re:Hohokam Park


“Fish Story” (Nov. 24, 1997)

Division Series

Box 55 Notepad

Folder 2 Notes, handwritten, general

Scorecards (5)



Scorecards (6)

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Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (2)


World Series


Scorecards (7)

Press releases

Program

OVR Box 67 Folder 4 Newspapers

Box 55 Folder 5 Travel and logistical documents

Box 56 Media guides (7)

“Wings of Fire” (May 18, 1998)

Folder 1 Galley proofs (4)

Spring Training

Notepads (2)


Notes, handwritten, on interviews

Transcripts, selected, of cassettes 1-7 and two

unrecorded

Cassette 1: Bob Gibson, Bobby Cox, Tony

LaRussa, Dave Duncan, Jeff

Brantley, Walt Jocketty

Cassette 2: Walt Jocketty, Bill Pulsipher,

John Franco, Rick Dempsey

Cassette 3: Rick Dempsey, Al Leiter, Bob

Apodaca

Cassette 4: Mike Flanagan, Ron Miller, Don

Baylor

Cassette 5: Orel Hershiser, Phil Regan, Bill

Wight, Sandy Alderson

Cassette 6: Bobby Mercer, David Cone

Cassette 7: David Cone, Dr. Robert Altchek

Cassette 8: Bob Apodaca


Scorecards (13)



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“Bang-Up Summer” (Nov. 16, 1998)

Regular Season

Box 57 Notepads (4)


Scorecards (4)

News releases


Division Series


Scorecards (8)



Notepads (2)


Scorecards (6)



Notes, handwritten

World Series


Transcript, selected, of cassette 1

New York Yankees team

Notes, handwritten

Scorecards (5)



Series II. Books and Related Material (4 folders, 1977)

This relatively small series, including a typescript, notes, correspondence and printed material,

documents the publishing of Angell’s second baseball essay collection.

Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion (1977)

Box 58 Folder 1 Typescript of foreword

Folder 2 Notes, handwritten, with contact information for book

recipients

Correspondence with Simon & Schuster Publishers

Folder 3 Book reviews

Letters with review attachments

Proofs

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Folder 7 Magazine clippings

Series III. Other Works and Related Material (1.5 boxes, 1960-1974)

Series Description

In this series are drafts and related material including notepads, notes, newspaper and magazine

clippings, photographs, letters, media notes and press releases, and other printed material

associated with Angell’s works unrelated to baseball. These papers shed light on Angell’s

diverse contributions to The New Yorker and are grouped by article and ordered chronologically.

“3:45 Flat” (Dec. 17, 1960), review of Exodus (1960) and The

Sundowners (1960)


“Distinguished Service” (Dec. 24, 1960), review of Angry

Silence (1960) and Tunes of Glory (1960)

Typescript with corrections

The New Yorker magazine with review

“Poor Peon” (Dec. 31, 1960), review of Pepe (1960) and Rue de

Paris (1959)



“Comrade Camera” (Jan. 7, 1961), review of Ballad of a

Soldier (1959) and The Grass is Greener (1960)


“Not for Children, Not for Adults” (Jan. 14, 1961), review of

The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) and Make Mine Mink (1960)



“The Red Knight” (Jan. 21, 1961), review of Don Quixote

(1957) and The Young One (1960)



“The Lower Depths” (Jan. 28, 1961), review of The League of

Gentlemen (1960), Two-Way Stretch (1960), and Where the Boys

Are (1960)


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“Misfire” (Feb. 4, 1961), review of The Misfits (1961)



“All Homage” (Feb. 11, 1961), review of Breathless (1960)


“Off-season” (Feb. 18, 1961), review of The Facts of Life

(1960), Hand in Hand (1960), and The Wackiest Ship in the

Army (1960)



“New Old Frontier” (Feb. 25, 1961), review of Cimarron (1960)

and The Millionairess (1960)


“Candy for Popeye” (Mar. 4, 1961), review of Sanctuary (1961)

and Modigliani of Montparnasse (1958)



“Not for Export” (Mar. 11, 1961), review of Love and the

Frenchwoman (1960) and Cry for Happy (1961)


“Sports” (1962) – New York Rangers hockey

Folder 7 Typescript with few corrections, notes on verso of last page

“Just a Personal Thing” (1962) – College football


“Hair vs. the Wizard” (1968) – Olympic rowing



Letters (3)

Photographs (3), of Harvard team and coach

Folder 11 Media notes and news releases

Newspaper clippings

Newsletter

Program


“The Great American Dream Machine” (1971), TV Series

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Letters (2)

Transcripts of interviews, complete, typed

Cookie Lavagetto. Slaughter Blomberg, Bill

Richardson, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Tommy

Agee, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Yogi Berra, Jackie

Robinson, Vic Wertz

Transcripts of Angell’s contribution, “The World Series”

“Super” (Feb. 11, 1974) – Super Bowl


Notepads (3)


Letter


Magazine and clippings

Newspaper clippings

Program


Series IV. Correspondence (3 boxes, 1970 - 1995, bulk 1979-1995)

Series Description

This series is divided into two subseries: Reader Mail (2.5 boxes, 1979-1995) and Personal and

Professional Correspondence (3 folders, 1970-1972, 1981). The former consists of letters

written to Angell by readers documenting his close relationship with his fans over a period of 26

years. The authors range from schoolchildren to television executives and issued from across the

United States and abroad. Angell drew source material from these letters and referred to

correspondents in his writings. In a letter of introduction which precedes the mail, he writes that

the letters are “a tribute to the fame and testament to its ability to arouse passionate feelings and

attachments.” Notable correspondents from diverse backgrounds include Mets General Manager

J. Frank Cashen, Steven Jay Gould (evolutionary biologist), Murray Horwitz (public radio

personality), Steve Wulf (executive editor of ESPN magazine), William White (National League

President), Nadine Strossen (ALCU president), and Michael P. Stone (Secretary of the Army).

The second subseries, Personal and Professional Correspondence, sheds light on Angell’s

interactions with publishers, colleagues, organizations, and friends. Angell only retained letters

from 1970-1972 and 1981, so these letters provide just a sampling of his correspondence. Letters

are ordered alphabetically by the authors’ last names. Enclosures accompany a number of letters

and include photographs, creative works, newspaper clippings, and printed material.

Reader Mail (1979-1995)

Box 60 Folder 1 Letter of introduction, Roger Angell

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Letters, A

Folder 2 Letters, B-Bi

Folder 3 Letters, Bi-

Folder 4 Letters, C

Folder 5 Letters, D

Folder 6 Letters, E-F

Folder 7 Letters, G

Box 61 Folder 1 Letters, H

Folder 2 Letters, I-J

Folder 3 Letters, K

Folder 4 Letters, L

Folder 5 Letters, M-Mc

Folder 6 Letters, Me-

Folder 7 Letters, N-Q

Folder 8 Letters, R

Folder 9 Letters, S-Sk

Folder 10 Letters, Sm-

Box 62 Folder 1 Letters, T

Folder 2 Letters, V-Z

Folder 3 Letters, Unnamed or illegible

Personal and Professional Correspondence (1970-1972, 1981)

Box 62 Folder 4 Correspondence, A-K

Folder 5 Correspondence, L-R

Folder 6 Correspondence, S-Y

Series V. General (1907, 1965-1995)


Cassette 1: Sandy Koufax, Jerry Remy, Carl Yastrzemski

Cassette 2: WFMU East Orange, NJ, Roger Angell

Cassette 3: Matt Keough

Affidavit, Roger Angell

Printed material authored by others

Creative works

Booklet, “Who’s Who in The Clevelands” (1907)

Documents

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