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I was in Pittsburgh when Mazeroski hit the home run to win the series against the Yankees and I don't remember listening to Chuck Thompson. There used to be an anouncer named Rosie Rosewell who broadcast the Pirates games locally. He was famous for his unique sayings like "it's the old dipsy doodle, he swings and misses for strike three". And, "open the windows aunt Minnie, here she comes, it's a home run" when a Pirate would hit a long one. Or, "its' FOB folks" for full of bucks when they had the bases loaded. That was a long time ago. Thanks for the post and link to the article which I missed. It brought back some great sports memories.
Hands down, the finest voice ever to announce baseball on the radio has got to be Vin Scully of the LA Dodgers. He is even recognized as such by other legendary announcers. He talks at the tempo the game is played. He paints a landscape of the field and the players on it. He tells you every move the pitcher or batter is making without being simplistic or repetitive. Much like his late counterpart, Chick Hearn of the LA Lakers, Vin is an artist who paints the game into your mind almost as if you were there in person. I am glad that over the past 15 years I have lived in SoCal, that I have gotten to listen to Vin(and Chick before his untimely death in 2003), and know a bad annoucer when I hear one(which is just about all of them)! Charlie Steiner of the Dodgers actually has a decent announcers voice but not the imagination of a Vin Scully.
Gregy, I've got this CD I'd like to send you...
gregy606: fox has consistently put together the worst baseball coverage ever, i want to blow my brains out every time i hear jon miller talk... Jon Miller is an ESPN announcer, it's Joe Buck who's the main Fox guy.
tommysands: I was in Pittsburgh when Mazeroski hit the home run to win the series against the Yankees and I don't remember listening to Chuck Thompson. Thompson did indeed call that game for NBC Radio, along with Jack Quinlan who was the Cubs' radio guy at the time. Bob Prince and Mel Allen, respectively the voices of the Pirates and Yankees then, did the NBC TV broadcast. Of course, it's possible that the Pirates also did their own radio broadcast of the Series, so maybe you heard whoever was doing that call.
Mo, thanks for the info. I'm sure you're right. And you brought back another name from the past, Bob Prince who, I think, was Rosie Roswell's protoge and if memory serves me, was booted out of Pittsburgh for some kind of errant behavior.
Tim McCarver is by far the worse announcer ive ever heard , i cant stand to listen to the audio for fox games . so i sit there with the sound off just watching the game , not exactly what tv execs have in mind for viewers to do.
"Evil", why not watch on TV and listen on radio? I do that sometimes when the announcers are not even an issue.
