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I grew up listening to and watching Yankee broadcasts with Phil Rizzuto, Bill White, and Frank Messer. They were quite a team, almost like old friends to me after so many years.

Here is an article that I posted on Mark Feinsand's blog, so apologies if you already saw it. It deals with Phil's many superstitions as a broadcaster. It is funny and a good read. It also brings back great memories.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/travel/escapes/23Ritual.html

I never got a chance to listen to Phil - in my early 20s - and I really regret not having the chance to hear him make calls. From what everyone says, he truly was a good broadcaster, something that is hard to come by these days.

On a side note, I was wondering if you received your new Yankees game hat Steve? I remember you talking about doing a review of it and if its worth buying. I've been on the fence about getting one since I found out about the new hats. Thanks.

I associate my love for the Yanks with my love for Scooter and White (and the theme music from WPIX broadcasts). Nothing beat finishing my homework and sitting in front of the TV for Yankee games, watching Ricky, Donnie, Winfield (and even the great Pags).

BTW, Steve, I haven't given up on our project to get City Hall to work with the Yanks on finding a piece of land to name after the Scooter. Whitey Ford got his back in 2000 so Scooter should too.

Fight the good fight MJ!

themetssuck - yes, I just updated the entry on the hats with a new comment. You can see it by clicking on the cap photo on the main WW page.

Paul - great link. Thanks.

im 20...and I'm very gratefull that I got the chance to listen to phil growing up. Him and Murcer were the two people's voice I heard the most during the summers of my childhood

MJ, as soon as I read your post, I heard the WPIX Channel 11 music, complete with the "ding" and everything. Nothing could compare to the team of Scooter, Messer and White. I watched a replay of the Bucky Dent HR game on YES and heard them for the first time in many years. Listening to them again was the highlight of that experience. Commentary these days just pales in comparison. The one guy that I didn't like on national TV that I do like on local radio is Jon Miller. On ESPN, he's with Joe Morgan, and the whole thing is like a tribute to Joe Morgan, which is so overdone. But he also calls the Giants games on local radio in SF (KNBR) and he is actually a very funny and off-color guy. And he can do play-by-play along the lines of Frank Messer, who was a real pro, and a great foil for the Scooter.

Ah, Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer. good times, good times.

Phil always seemed like a good friend you were with at the game -- talk about lots of things, especially canolis, and hey, there's also a ballgame going.