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Baseball World Reacts To Roy Halladay's Death

DALLAS (105.3 The Fan) - Roy Halladay's death shocked the baseball world on Tuesday.

The right-hander, who was one of the best pitchers of his generation, died in a plane crash just off the Florida coast.

The baseball community flooded social media with condolences after news came of Halladay's death.

This is a just a sampling of the many posts that honored Halladay:

","provider_url":"https://twitter.com","provider_name":"Twitter","width":550,"author_name":"Chris Archer","author_url":"https://twitter.com/ChrisArcher22","html":"\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRoy Halladay will be severely missed. Had the chance to pick his brain one time. I\u0026#39;m grateful to have come across such a humble man. My heart goes out to his beautiful family. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPDOC?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003e#RIPDOC\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Chris Archer (@ChrisArcher22) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrisArcher22/status/928037620336287746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003eNovember 7, 2017\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n"}" data-url="https://twitter.com/ChrisArcher22/status/928037620336287746" data-conversation="true">

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