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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Passing: Bob Sheppard - Longtime Voice of the Yankee Stadium

From The New York Times:

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: July 11, 2010

From the last days of DiMaggio through the primes of Mantle, Berra, Jackson and Jeter, Sheppard’s precise, resonant, even Olympian elocution — he was sometimes called the Voice of God — greeted Yankee fans with the words, “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Yankee Stadium.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/sports/baseball/12sheppard.html?_r=1&hp

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