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Fidrych's friendship special to Leyland 

Earlier in the day, he had been asked to react to the news of Harry Kalas' death.

Leyland knew and liked the Phillies' Hall of Fame broadcaster. In various corridors, they had snuck smokes together at banquets where smoking wasn't allowed.

There's a certain bond, it seems, between smokers sneaking smokes.

In Kalas' passing, Leyland lost a friend and baseball, he said, had lost "a true gentleman."

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