I feel you in the air today.

I know you gave me more of your country.

I feel you in the air today.

Hello and welcome to episode 3.

1852 and effectively wild.

The fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fancrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Lemberg of the Ringart.

Ben, how are you?

Well, I was doing okay.

And then we got some extremely sad news.

Right before we started recording.

We have recorded most of this episode.

We will be joined by a guest.

But we are doing our intro here and just as we were preparing to start,

we read that very sadly the legend Roger Angel, the New Yorker writer and editor

and consensus best baseball writer ever has died at age 101 of heart failure in his Manhattan home.

I suppose you can't say that it comes as a shock when someone who is 101 passes away.

But regardless, it's a big blow because he's an idol of ours.

And he's someone who has given us so much and influenced our work and influenced so many others works.

He is your favorite baseball writer, favorite baseball writer basically.

And to have him leave is just kind of shocking.

He's been a constant, not just for us, but for people who are a generation or two older than we are.

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