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Thursday, March 27, 2008

The 97-Year-Old Voice of the Yankees

Lovely, warmhearted George Vecsey column today about Bob Sheppard, the Yankee Stadium announcer since 1951.

Sheppard is cagey about his age, but Vecsey notes that he played football at St. John's from 1928-32. (Wikipedia claims Sheppard was born in 1910.) Still, he just signed a two-year contract with the Yanks.

Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 6:46 AM