The Scooter. The
Yankees' #
10, in a long
baseball career spanning the end of the
Gehrig Era and the prime of
Mantle's. His slight build epitomized the look of the pre-
Ripken shortstop. Went on to an even longer career doing Yankees games on WPIX-TV in
NYC - a sometimes-spacy
announcer so down-home, he was like an electronic uncle; he spoke in his own
voice (a style lampooned by friend and fan
Billy Crystal), not in broadcast-school cadences. He was the "
Holy Cow!" man, for those of us east of the Mississippi.
(under construction, disco)