The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing aticles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Roger Angell, sometimes called the poet laureate of baseball, died this month at age 101. Angell, a longtime summer visitor to Maine, may be best known for his copious musings about America’s favorite pastime, but he also had much to say — or write — about his summer home in Brooklin. Angell, who was a writer and editor for the New Yorker for decades, first came to Maine in 1933, after his stepfather, famed writer E.B.