I Think If You Checked The Attendance

Baseball Is Just A Game, As Simple As A Ball And Bat, Yet As Complex As The American Spirit It Symbolizes. A Sport, A Business And Sometimes Almost Even A Religion.

If I Walked Back Into The Booth In The Year 2025, I Don't Think It Would Have Changed Much. I Think Baseball Would Be Played And Managed Pretty Much The Same As It Is Today. It's A Great Survivor.

So Much Happened (in 1968) It Was Hard To Keep Up With Everything. We Had Denny Mclain's Thirty-one Victories, Gates Brown's Great Pinch-hitting In The Clutch, Tom Matchick's Home Run To Beat Baltimore In The Ninth Inning, Then Daryl Patterson Striking Out The Side To Beat Them In The Ninth. Excitement Every Day In The Ballpark.

A Tall, Thin Old Man Waving A Scorecard From The Corner Of His Dugout. That's Baseball.

I Think Once You Start As An Announcer, You Have To Decide What Kind Of Approach You're Going To Have. I Decided Very Early That I Was Going To Be A Reporter, That I Would Not Cheer For The Team. I Don't Denigrate People Who Do It. It's Fine. I Think You Just Have To Fit Whatever Kind Of Personality You Have, And I Think My Nature Was To Be More Down The Middle And That's The Way I Conducted The Broadcasts.