With The Giants I Broadcast The Debut

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.’

Everybody In The Minor Leagues - If You're A Player, An Announcer, Whatever - Wants To Be In The Big Leagues.

Wheaties Was The Big Sponsor In Those Days (1940s). They Sponsored Almost All The Baseball Games In The Majors And The Minors. That Was A Lot Of Wheaties. I Think There Were Twenty-four Boxes In A Case And Some Of These Guys Were Hitting Twenty-five And Thirty Home Runs A Season. We Had A Dog In Those Days Named Blue Grass And The Players Used To Give Us Their Wheaties For Him. Blue Grass Loved Wheaties And So Did I.

Baseball Is A Lot Like Life. It's A Day-to-day Existence, Full Of Ups And Downs. You Make The Most Of Your Opportunities In Baseball As You Do In Life.

Baseball Is The President Tossing Out The First Ball Of The Season. And A Scrubby Schoolboy Playing Catch With His Dad On A Mississippi Farm.