I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
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.
I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
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.’
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 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.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.
I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
I think God always has the best for us.
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
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