Really a throwback to a different era when major league baseball players were regular guys...regular sized (Rizzuto was 5' 6" and 160 pounds)...with regular paychecks...living in regular neighborhoods among their fans. Heck...Rizzuto, like many players of the same era, lost several good playing years serving in WWII
Quotes from Wikipedia:
*"Uh-oh, deep to left-center, nobody's gonna get that one! Holy cow, somebody got it!"
* "Bouncer to third, they'll never get him! No, why don't I just shut up!"
* "All right! Stay fair! No, it won't stay fair. Good thing it didn't stay fair, or I think he would've caught it!"
* "Oh, these Yankees can get the clutch hits, Murcer. I might have to go home early, I just got a cramp in my leg."
* "Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win." (He was still on the air, just after a game, when he heard that Pope Paul VI had just died. Esquire Magazine called that the "Holiest Cow of 1978."