Effectively Wild Episode 1592: The Roger Angell Centennial Celebration

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In honor of New Yorker writer and editor and Baseball Hall of Famer Roger Angell’s 100th birthday, Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley discuss what they admire about Angell’s life and work, how he’s influenced their writing, and a few of their favorite Angell works. Then (26:22) they cue up a collection of original, […]

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to this fashion event with some party of century.
0:05.9	So let it commence.
0:07.6	We don't use it, we don't use it.
0:09.3	We don't wait up, let it be your friend.
0:11.6	So let's party like it's 1920 again.
0:15.8	Hello and welcome to Episode 1592 of Effectively Wild,
0:20.4	a baseball podcast from Fingrafts, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:24.7	I am Ben Limbert, out of the ringer.
0:26.7	joined today by both of my co-hosts,
0:29.1	Mick Rally of Fingrafts, hello, Mick.
0:31.2	Hello.
0:32.0	And Sam Miller of ESPN, hello, Sam.
0:34.7	The three of us are teaming up today to praise and celebrate Roger Angel,
0:40.8	who turns 100 years old on Saturday.
0:43.6	And Angel of course is the beloved and decorated writer and editor for the New Yorker
0:48.3	who has written about baseball better and longer than anyone.
0:51.8	He is probably your favorite baseball writers, favorite baseball writer.
0:55.4	And we have talked about what makes him so special before.
0:58.3	And I'm sure we will again,
0:59.7	but we wanted to do something to honor him on his 100th birthday.
1:03.8	And I actually listened in on a Zoom call that he was a part of this week.
1:08.3	And he joked that he was going to get a cake,
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