Sarah Langs
Sarah Langs (born May 2, 1993)[1] is an American sportswriter and podcaster. She currently writes for MLB.com and is known for her command of baseball history and statistics. She co-hosts the podcast Ballpark Dimensions with colleague Mandy Bell.[2]
Early life
Langs became interested in baseball as a child growing up in New York City and watching the New York Mets.[3] Conversations about sports and statistics were common in her household.[4]
Langs studied comparative human development at the University of Chicago and wrote about sports for The Chicago Maroon. She interned at the New York Post, Newsweek and The Daily Beast before an internship with Sportsnet New York gave her the opportunity to pitch and write sports stories.[5][4]
Career
After graduating in 2015, Langs remained in Chicago, writing research pieces about the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox for NBC Sports Chicago. ESPN soon hired her as a researcher. She supported the hosts of Baseball Tonight with statistics and other historical information.[6][6]
In 2017, Buster Olney urged Langs to appear on the Baseball Tonight podcast, which led to regular appearances on the podcast and on air. MLB.com hired Langs in 2019, though she continues to work behind the scenes on ESPN broadcasts and appear on Olney's podcast.[6]
In 2021, she served as an on-air analyst as part of Major League Baseball's first all-female broadcast crew, calling a YouTube Game of the Week featuring the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field.[7]
In January 2023, the Baseball Writers Association of America honored Langs with the Casey Stengel "You Could Look It Up" Award, which is typically presented to someone the group has not otherwise recognized.[8]
Personal life
Langs is in a relationship with Matt Williams, an NBA researcher for ESPN.[3]
Langs, an avid runner, first noticed an unexplained limp in 2019. In early 2020, she saw an orthopedist, wrongly thinking it was an ankle injury.[9] In 2021, Langs was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive and terminal illness affecting motor function. She revealed her diagnosis just before the 2022 Major League Baseball postseason.[10] She has continued to work for MLB.com and record podcasts, doing so mostly from home. She has credited her work and the baseball community with helping her to cope with her diagnosis.[11]
Langs ran three half-marathons while experiencing symptoms of what doctors later determined to be ALS.[6]
Since announcing her diagnosis, Langs has highlighted nonprofits and research efforts related to ALS. On her birthday in May 2023, she launched #FistBumps4ALS, a fundraising effort for Project ALS similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge.[1] As of May 20, the effort had raised more than $25,000 from donors including Karl Ravech, Jeff Passan and Jon "Boog" Sciambi.[12] Charles Barkley highlighted the fundraising effort during an Inside the NBA broadcast.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bushak, Lecia (5 May 2023). "MLB Network's Sarah Langs pitches fans on #FistBumps4ALS campaign". MM+M - Medical Marketing and Media. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ↑ "Ballpark Dimensions on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marchand, Andrew (6 December 2022). "Inside Sarah Langs' inspiring ALS fight — which hasn't slowed her baseball media rise". New York Post. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gonzalez, Marcos. "UChicago Alum Sarah Langs Continues to Inspire Fans Around the Nation". Chicago Maroon. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ↑ "Meet The College New Media Editors | The College | The University of Chicago | The University of Chicago". college.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Buchanan, Zach (14 December 2022). "Faced with an ALS diagnosis, Sarah Langs — MLB's research star — keeps going". The Athletic. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ↑ "All-women broadcast crew makes history". MLB.com. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ↑ Muratore, Elizabeth. "Langs' BBWAA honor couldn't be more fitting". MLB.com. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ↑ "INTERVIEW With SARAH LANGS". Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ↑ "https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1578041977957933056". Twitter. Retrieved 11 May 2023. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Sarah Langs: "Baseball is really part of what has gotten me through all this" - Ben & Woods On Demand". omny.fm. KWFN-FM. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ↑ "#FistBumps4ALS in honor of Sarah Langs". fundraise.projectals.org. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ↑ Heim, Mark (9 May 2023). "Charles Barkley nominates Hugh Freeze, Paul Finebaum, Bruce Pearl for ALS fist bump challenge". al. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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