MLB ’19: Longtime baseball voices going, going, almost gone
Posted By: Ken M., 3/19/2019 7:19:12 PM
Steve Blass spent his boyhood afternoons in Connecticut flinging a rubber ball against the side of a half-barn, fantasizing that he was pitching in the majors. Come evening, the 10-year-old would get his radio and tune into a game, delighted when Mel Allen’s voice crackled from the transistor. “When I thought ‘baseball,’ I thought about Mel Allen,” said Blass, now a Pittsburgh Pirates announcer. “When I thought ‘Mel Allen,’ I thought about baseball.” More than in any other sport, baseball broadcasters become an inseparable part of the game they describe.
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When I think of the Pirates´ announcer, it´s Rosey Rowswell (and Bob Prince was an up-and-coming assistant):
https://baseballhall.org/discover/awards/ford-c-frick/2016-candidates/rowswell-rosey