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I Think If You Checked The Attendance Records Of All The Announcers, You'd Find A Lot Better Record Than You Would Of Anybody Else In Any Other Business Because We Love The Game And Have A Passion For It.

I Think I Owe Thanks To The People Who Have Listened To Me Over The Years, Who Tuned In On The Radio. They Have Given Me A Warmth And Loyalty That I've Never Been Able To Repay. The Way They Have Reached Out To Me Has Certainly Been The Highlight Of My Life.

I Think Once You Start As An Announcer, You Have To Decide What Kind Of Approach You're Going To Have. I Decided Very Early That I Was Going To Be A Reporter, That I Would Not Cheer For The Team. I Don't Denigrate People Who Do It. It's Fine. I Think You Just Have To Fit Whatever Kind Of Personality You Have, And I Think My Nature Was To Be More Down The Middle And That's The Way I Conducted The Broadcasts.

Nicknames Are Baseball, Names Like Zeke And Pie And Kiki And Home Run And Cracker And Dizzy And Dazzy.

Why The Fairy Tale Of Willie Mays Making A Brilliant World Series Catch, And Then Dashing Off To Play Stickball In The Street With His Teenage Pals. That’s Baseball. So Is The Husky Voice Of A Doomed Lou Gehrig Saying, ‘i Consider Myself The Luckiest Man On The Face Of This Earth.’