There was a moment in Brandy Halladay’s Hall of Fame induction speech about her late husband Roy that signaled there was more than we knew to the story of his life and tragic death.
“I think that Roy would want everyone to know that people are not perfect,” she said in Cooperstown in July 2019. “We are all imperfect and flawed in one way or another. We all struggle but with hard work, humility and dedication, imperfect people can still have perfect moments.”
That moment — that brief allusion — is what motivated reporter/director John Barr and a production team from ESPN’s E:60 to dig further into what led to the death of Roy Halladay, the former Blue Jays and Phillies ace, in a 2017 plane crash.