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Effective moral sovage. Hello and welcome to episode 2181 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined once again by Meg Rally of fan graphs.

Welcome back, Meg.

Hello.

Happy to have you back.

And I know you've been busy taking care of various things and also attending the draft combine.

Yes.

So I don't know what you were doing on Thursday night, but I was watching the Rickwood game.

And I gotta say, Rickwood game was great.

It was really good.

It was really good.

It was really good. I was nervous going in about just like what it would be like.

I think we came away from the podcast being very impressed sort of like pleasantly surprised by the candor of the

road to Rickwood podcast where there was not a shying away from trying to reckon with the real horrors of not only

baseball prior to integration but following integration, I'm doing scare quotes, that no one can see but me.

And I thought that yesterday was very well done, like it struck the right balance between being celebratory and acknowledging the Negro leaguers

we still have living today, while also I think trying to reckon with and get its arms around the reality of the, you know, social and political environment that necessitated Negro League's play there and I was very impressed. I thought that it had the vibe to me of

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