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Yankees HATS OFF - RIP Phil Rizzuto
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news...t=.jsp&c_id=nyy
Sept 25, 1917 - Aug 14, 2007
| quote: | 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.
Rizzuto's playing and broadcasting careers were in contrast with each other. As a player, Rizzuto had the reputation for being an alert, heads-up competitor with keen baseball instincts that eventually earned him a place in the Hall of Fame. Behind the microphone, he was at times oblivious to the events on the field; nevertheless, his lack of polish as an announcer was ignored by generations of Yankees fans who accepted his eccentricities the way family members do an amusing relative.
In many ways, the Yankees were Rizzuto's family. Except for a three-year stretch in the United States Navy (1943-45) during World War II, Rizzuto was the Yankees' regular shortstop from 1941 into the 1956 season, when he retired under somewhat disagreeable circumstances. The next year, he began a broadcasting career that would run 40 seasons through 1996, the first year of the Yankees' most recent stretch of success under manager Joe Torre.
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RIP SCOOTER WE LOVE YOU
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I PUT TRADEMARKS AROUND YO MOTHAFUCKIN EYE
JUST ME N YOU
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