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"Scooter" Rizzuto dies at 89
NY Yankees website ^
| 8/14/2007
| By Jack O'Connell
Posted on 08/14/2007 8:48:51 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto, who overcame his diminutive size to become a key contributor to numerous New York Yankees championships and followed his playing career with a lengthy and entertaining stint in the team's broadcast booth, died Tuesday. He was 89.
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; mlb; nyyankees; obituary; rizzuto; yankees
"Holy Cow", munching on big cannoli in the sky.
To: JohnLongIsland
To: So Cal Rocket
I wonder how many of todays’s juicehead players will live to 89?
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:51:06 AM PDT
by
raptor29
To: JohnLongIsland
Scooter will always be in my list of “cool old guys” for his willingness to do a cameo on Meatloaf’s “Bat out of Hell.”
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:55:04 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Clemenza
“Holy cow, I think he’s gonna make it...”
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:59:11 AM PDT
by
gate2wire
To: JohnLongIsland
Ok, here we go, we got a real pressure cooker going here, two down, nobody on, no score, bottom of the ninth, there's the wind-up and there it is, a line shot up the middle, look at him go. This boy can really fly! He's rounding first and really turning it on now, he's not letting up at all, he's gonna try for second; the ball is bobbled out in center, and here comes the throw, and what a throw! He's gonna slide in head first, here he comes, he's out! No, wait, safe--safe at second base, this kid really makes things happen out there. Batter steps up to the plate, here's the pitch-- he's going, and what a jump he's got, he's trying for third, here's the throw, it's in the dirt-- safe at third! Holy cow, stolen base! He's taking a pretty big lead out there, almost daring him to try and pick him off. The pitcher glance over, winds up, and it's bunted, bunted down the third base line, the suicide squeeze in on! Here he comes, squeeze play, it's gonna be close, here's the throw, there's the play at the plate, holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!Rizzuto was the voice of the baseball announcer in Meatlof's Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Oh yeah, and a Hall-of-Famer as well.
RIP Scooter...
To: JohnLongIsland
9 World Series rings for Rizzuto in his 13 seasons in MLB in a Hall of Fame career. Not bad.
RIP, Scooter.
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posted on
08/14/2007 9:13:38 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
(There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
To: JohnLongIsland
Grew up listening to Rizzuto on the radio and television broadcasts of Yankees games. The conversations he used to get into with Bill White were classics—often ending up with White unable to control his laughter. Listening to Scooter made you feel like you were sitting back on a lazy (hazy, crazy) summer day with friends and, oh yeah, a ballgame was going on.
I also remember being at Phil Rizzuto day at the Stadium. Seaver pitched a no-hitter (I think) against the Yankees that day. But what made that day special was they honored Rizzuto by giving him a cow! And the darned cow knocked Phil right on his backside! Classic Rizzuto.
I’ve been missing listening to his voice for years now. He was a part of my childhood/young adulthood.
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posted on
08/14/2007 9:16:24 AM PDT
by
MarDav
To: JohnLongIsland
R.I.P.
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posted on
08/14/2007 9:31:57 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
To: MarDav
seaver got his 300th win that day with the reds.
can’t forget frank messer.
To: MarDav
Good post.
Do you have the YES Network? If so, Mike and the Mad Dog are doing a Rizzuto retrospective right now..
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posted on
08/14/2007 10:06:42 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
(There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
To: JohnLongIsland
Hope they have a tribute at Fenway tonight. [And then kill the Yankees on the playoffs.] Scooter was one class guy.
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posted on
08/14/2007 10:27:27 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
...Among the highest compliments paid Rizzuto came from [Ted] Williams, who frequently said the Boston Red Sox might have been in all those World Series had Rizzuto been on their side. As a member of the Hall's Veterans Committee, Williams lobbied hard for Rizzuto's enshrinement in Cooperstown, N.Y., which became reality in 1994. Rizzuto had been the oldest living Hall of Famer. That distinction now belongs to former American League president Lee MacPhail, with former second baseman Bobby Doerr the oldest living Hall of Fame player...
there's no better baseball than a yankees - red sox series
To: JohnLongIsland
RIP Scooter. Thanks for the laughs and the thrills
To: WrightWings
Ok, here we go, we got a real pressure cooker going here, two down, nobody on, no score, bottom of the ninth, there's the OK, how could you put on a suicide squeeze with two out? They can just throw to first and the third out is a force so the run doesn't score. Can't believe Scooter let those lyrics stand.
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posted on
08/14/2007 2:17:39 PM PDT
by
Dilbert56
(Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
To: JohnLongIsland
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:17:22 PM PDT
by
Zuben Elgenubi
(This week, the Carolina Classic at Greensboro)
To: JohnLongIsland
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posted on
08/15/2007 6:56:33 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53))
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