Roger Angell reappears

His New Yorker baseball articles are fewer and shorter, but still full of grace notes of felicitious phrase and precise observation:

"It wound up 6-1, Phillies -- an outcome that was almost visible when Lee fanned Jeter and Teixeira in the first inning and the holiday crowd at the Stadium went all murmurous."

"Utley, who has slicked-back, Jake Gittes hair, possesses a quick bat and a very short home-run stroke; he looks like a man in an A.T.M. reaching for his cash."

from the Nov 30, 2009 issue,

as is this amusing casual by Mike Sacks:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/11/30/091130sh_shouts_sacks