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“Baseball is who I am.” The Unforgettable Story of Sarah Langs

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today is Lou Gehrig Day across Major League Baseball, a day to honor the New York Yankees legend when he left the game in 1939 after he was diagnosed with ALS. And today, there’s someone else in baseball who is fighting the exact same fight Gehrig fought over 80 years ago: Sarah Langs. Sarah is a baseball researcher and analyst, and has worked for ESPN and MLB. She’s one of sports media’s brightest young voices, and Buster Olney joins us today to share her story…and how she remains unphased after life threw her a devastating curveball. For more information on Sarah’s “Fist Bumps for ALS” campaign, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Buster, can you share your favorite memory of your colleague Sarah Langs?

0:22.0

So during the 2016 World Series you got the Cubs playing the Cleveland Indians

0:28.0

and Sarah at that time was probably working about 22 hours a day.

0:35.0

Buster only has worked with a lot of people in his 20 years covering baseball for ESPN.

0:41.0

But few have made an impression on him like that of researcher and analyst Sarah Langs.

0:46.0

She was loving it, making herself available for the earliest morning sport centers.

0:52.0

For the latest sport centers baseball tonight in between.

0:56.0

And of course being at the ballpark while the games are being played.

0:59.0

And so in the midst of that she was catching cat naps in the seats right next to the first base dugout.

1:08.0

She is absolute joy, absolute love of baseball.

1:13.0

Like she was all in on that whole series.

1:16.0

She was not going to miss a moment to research baseball or to be in the ballpark or to just be in the moment.

1:25.0

But she just enjoyed every bit of that World Series in a way I don't think anybody else has.

1:34.0

It's hard to miss Sarah Langs love for the game of baseball.

1:38.0

I can't believe I'm someone who gets to go on a podcast and talk to you about baseball.

1:44.0

We're said that my computer gives us everybody on Sunday night baseball.

1:50.0

And at 30 years old she's never needed the game as much as she does now.

1:56.0

That's because Sarah Langs is in the fight of her life.

1:59.0

I wanted to show them that someone with ALS can so worth the postseason and do all these things.

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