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I copied this over from yesterday's thread in case you didn't see it there:

Thanks, litany - Great stats on Brock. A few of us were talking about Lou at work the other day and every one of us "remembered" that he had a mediocre year or two in St. Louis before finally "blossoming" but your stats show that was not the case at all! Goes to show what 40 years of killing off brain cells does to your memory.

Regarding Brickhouse, here's some notes from an obit:
"Not surprisingly, his home run call was a simple, friendly, rumbling exclamation, familiar to denizens of Wrigley Field or Comiskey Park. "Back, back, back!" he started, then pausing to see if the ball was struck far enough. "That's it!" he added. "Hey-hey! Hey-hey!"

Chet Coppock, a Chicago sportscaster, said, "In the 1950s, 'hey-hey' meant the Eisenhower administration and a wonderful stock market. In the 1960s, it was a dose of reality during a changing America." Brickhouse's career began at age 18 at a radio station in his hometown of Peoria. He came to Chicago in 1940, and with breaks for military service and a year to call New York Giants baseball games, Brickhouse called Cubs games from 1941 to 1981 and White Sox games from 1940 to 1967 on WGN Radio or TV. For more than two decades, he would call the home games of the crosstown rivals, an unusual feat in local sportscasting. "You'd have thought some people would hate him for that, but he was manifestly a person of good will," said Curt Smith, a sportscasting historian."

http://thedeadballera.crosswinds.net/Obits/Brickhouse.Jack.Obit.html

Born January 24, 1916
Died August 6, 1998

Major League Baseball Broadcasting Career:
1940--1945 Chicago White Sox
1941--1945 Chicago Cubs
1946 New York Giants
1947--1967 Chicago White Sox
1947--1981 Chicago Cubs

Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as an announcer in 1983.

http://www.homestead.com/ClassicRadio/Brickhouse_Jack.html

I came to Chicago in '63 and got the impression that he was more of a Sox fan then and became more of a Cubs fan after he quit announcing for the Sox but I could be wrong again (as miraculous as that might seem.) Or maybe it was that, back then, the Sox were just playing better baseball.