Of course I’ve heard of him, but I never heard him.
Video
Vin Scully - Opening Day 04/06/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNFi-9x08Ak
Well, as a life-long Giant fan, I never really got to listen to him regularly either, but he was always a great man whom I wish the PTB at KSFO could have lured north. Of course, in those days, Russ Hodges was at the SF radio helm, as he had been in NY (Russ was the man who announced the Robby Thompson HR over the Dodgers in 1951). He was just as great a man with just as distinctive a voice and just as much deep baseball experience. Those were the days of giants in the radio booth.
Ernie...who is about to pass on...he had his goodbye to Detroit fans at a Lions’ game last fall, has inoperable cancer...
...Ernie painted word pictures...he never was a Tiger homer, he always described the game and never allowed his personality to get in the way.
How I long for those Michigan summer days, being outdoors and listening to Ernie on the radio.