Tom Verducci on Roger Angell and the art of baseball writing

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Episode 207 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Tom Verducci, the senior writer for Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports and MLB Network game, studio analyst and reporter. In this podcast Verducci discusses the life and times of Roger Angell, the brilliant baseball writer who passed away last week at age 101; Verducci’s piece on Angell in 2014 titled, “The Passion of Roger Angell: The best baseball writer in America is also a fan”; spending time with Angell at his home in Maine; why Angell can never be duplicated given he connected Babe Ruth to Shohei Ohtani; how Angell approached baseball writing in his later years; Angell’s late start to writing baseball at 41; the literary family Angell grew up in; the luxury Angell had in writing longform; Josh Donaldson’s comments on Tim Anderson; the Mets under owner Steven Cohen; Joe Davis replacing Joe Buck; the legend of Sandy Koufax, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Dicch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:10.2	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:12.1	My guest this week is Tom Varyucci, the phenomenal senior writer for Sports Illustrated,
0:17.0	also a major league game and studio analyst and reporter for fox sports and MLB network
0:22.1	really nobody better when it comes to writing long form baseball in the united states than
0:29.3	tom verducci and the subject of our conversation is probably the best to ever do what i just
0:34.8	mentioned roger angel who passed away last week at the age of
0:38.7	101. Tom Verducci wrote a piece in 2014 title, The Passion of Roger Angel, the best baseball
0:44.2	writer in America is also a fan. Just an incredible piece on Roger Angel's life and his approach
0:49.1	and how he became who he was. And we have a conversation, Tom Verducci and I, on Roger Angel and his impact and how he became who he was. And we have a conversation, Tom Verduci, and I, on Roger Angel and his impact and how he saw the game and the sort of the, not the notion, but the, the art of baseball writing and long form baseball writing in particular. Roger Angel's relationship with the players of baseball writing and long-form baseball writing in particular.
1:12.4	Roger Angel's relationship with the players of his era, Bob Gibson was incredibly close to Roger Angel.
1:18.2	He let Bob Gibson didn't let anybody into his life, and he let Roger Angel into his life.
1:23.3	And so just a great conversation with Tom Verucci, who knew Redger Angel very, very well
1:28.1	about his work.
1:29.4	And then Tom and I got into some modern stuff, including the Josh Donaldson, Tim Anderson,
1:34.4	stuff that went on over the last weekend.
1:39.6	Tom's thoughts on that.
1:41.7	The Mets and their sort of re-emergence under Steve Cohen, a Steinbrenner-like figure, talked
1:48.0	a little bit about Joe Davis, and then ended our conversation with Sandy Kofax, who somebody
1:52.6	Tom Bernucci has written about as well.
1:56.5	I usually do this at the end of the podcast, but I'll do it here.
1:59.6	Again, if you like these kind of
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