Alas, his work there is now forgotten, and he spent his declining years battingout profiles of show-business celebrities like Mel Brooks and Johnny Carson for the New Yorker, a sad way for so spectacularly gifted a writer to go out.
Umpire Asad Rauf gave the left-hander out after lengthy consideration of the evidence which included Hayden - batting well out of his crease anyway - taking a big stride down the ground to a swinging delivery.