Phil and Bill White were a terrific team of announcers for Yankee games. Sad news.
I commented about this on another thread. At times, White could scarcely get a word out because he was laughing so hard. What a different time! The game was almost background noise for being with friends, sharing stories, coming together.
I went to a game at Yankee stadium about 3 years ago with my 6 year old son. There was non-stop noise from the PA system, I couldn’t hear myself think and my son and I were constantly distracted by something going on on the jumbo-tron scoreboard. Thinking about Phil Rizzuto just now brings me back to when I could hear the sounds of the game, the vendors, the conversations of fathers and sons as they talked about baseball and family and, in so doing, bonded together by the glue called baseball.
I miss his voice...or, maybe I just miss the times of life that included his voice.
I dated an avid Yankee fan in the mid-70s. Phil and Bill White will forever be the voice of the Yankees for me.
I imagine my old flame is taking this hard too.
RIP.