Rizzuto was the announcer for the New York Yankees baseball team for some 40 years, and some of his at times rambling or disjointed commentary was collected and reformatted by Hart Seely and Tom Peyer into a collection of Rizzuto's found poetry.

In a nod to the Yankees – Red Sox rivalry, some radio stations in Boston created a version where Rizzuto's part was substituted with Red Sox announcer Dick Stockton describing the baseball play.

In " The Letter " ( 1992 ), Rizzuto's commentary is heard describing a struggle between Elaine Benes and security guards in the owner's box behind home plate at Yankee Stadium.

On July 19, 1951, Carrasquel broke Rizzuto's Major League record by handling 297 consecutive chances in 53 games without committing an error.

Dorothy goes on to explain that she has noticed the phrase holy cow creeping into her mother's vocabulary, a reference to Rizzuto's catchphrase.

Throughout the film, Albert makes baseball-related statements based on Rizzuto's broadcasts that help his fellow mental patients decipher the secret information he knows about their doctor's disappearance.

* In the ESPN film The Bronx Is Burning, some of Rizzuto's actual 1977 broadcasts are heard.

" Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto still complained years later about a play during the 1951 World Series where Stanky kicked the ball loose from Rizzuto's glove.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.

Buck wasn't intended to be the main play-by-play announcer for CBS baseball telecasts when the network acquired the sport from NBC and ABC.

Buck later rued that " CBS never got that baseball play-by-play draws word-pictures.

During the 1959 minor league baseball season, Rather was the play-by-play radio announcer for the Houston Buffs team of the triple A American Association.

In addition to his play-by-play duties, Caray also hosted a pre-game call in show, until 2004, during which he was notorious for insulting on-air fans with curt and sarcastic responses, particularly when asked baseball questions of the simplest order, such as " how do you calculate ERA?

During the 1980s, Gifford would fill-in for Al Michaels ( who had replaced Gifford on play-by-play in 1986 ) on play-by-play whenever Michaels went on baseball assignments for the League Championship Series ( 1986 and 1988 ) or World Series ( 1987 and 1989 ).

WREK also broadcasts play-by-play coverage of Georgia Tech intercollegiate athletics, including baseball, women's basketball, and volleyball.

In sports, such as American football and baseball, simulcasts are when a single announcer broadcasts play-by-play coverage both over television and radio.

Another famous figure was Harry Caray, who did play-by-play for Cardinals ' baseball from 1945 through 1969.

McDonough had replaced Jack Buck as CBS ' lead baseball play-by-play man after the elder Buck was fired in late.

Murphy became known for " painting the word picture ;" many say that play-by-play of baseball on radio requires a lot more skill than baseball on television, because on radio, the broadcaster must be able to inspire the listener's imagination.

The largest change is the complete removal of the " baseball play-by-play " section.

Vincent Edward " Vin " Scully ( born November 29, 1927 ) is an American sportscaster, best known as the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on Prime Ticket, KCAL television, and KLAC radio, ever since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1957.

He launched his career as a sportscaster in 1974 by calling play-by-play action for AAA baseball's Tacoma Twins of the Pacific Coast League, as well as baseball and football action for the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.

He also did his first play-by-play, calling military football and baseball games.

From 1995 until 2004, WSB was branded as the " Sports Voice of the South ", carrying play-by-play game coverage of Braves baseball, Hawks basketball, and UGA football and basketball.

He was asked to create play-by-play recreations of Chicago Cubs baseball games using transcribed telegraph reports ; his job performance in this role led to his selection in 1937 as the most popular Wheaties announcer in the nation.

At the end of the 2006 season, Snow retired from baseball and began working as a color commentator on Giants radio broadcasts alongside play-by-play announcer Dave Flemming.

McCracken was familiar with play-by-play broadcasting, having created virtual baseball games for radio broadcast based on wire reports.

WJZ's first major program occurred on October 5, 1921, when it broadcast the 1921 World Series, but there was no play-by-play direct from the baseball stadium.

Kay ( far left ) with Paul O ' Neill ( baseball ) | Paul O ' Neill and Ken Singleton, providing play-by-play commentary for the Yankees on YES.

* b. Although not an actual award, many baseball fans and experts call a pitcher who leads his league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA the Triple Crown winner.

When the National League's chief counsel, future Senator George Wharton Pepper referred to the activities of baseball players on the field as " labor ", Landis interrupted him: " As a result of 30 years of observation, I am shocked because you call playing baseball ' labor.

The Helena Brewers minor league baseball and Helena Bighorns Tier III Junior A hockey team call the city home.

Mantle served as a part-time color commentator on NBC's baseball coverage in 1969, teaming with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek to call some Game of the Week telecasts as well as that year's All-Star Game.

Former teammate and American League President Bobby Brown noted his heritage and a popular railroad influenced the baseball media to use the nickname, " But for some of you too young to remember, the Santa Fe Railroad at that time had a crack train ( call the Superchief ) that ran from California to Chicago, and it was known for its elegance, its power and its speed.

In professional baseball, the term " blue " is seldom used by players or managers, who instead call the umpire by his actual name in order to show respect ( and to reflect the fact that MLB umpires do not always wear blue ).

Cepeda decided not to call, intending to retire from baseball.

This strategic and often complicated call is usually screamed by Berman when a baseball is hit a very long way, and is followed by " Gone!

They play mailbox baseball, but a neighborhood resident brandishing a gun threatens to call the police.

From to, Morgan teamed with Bob Costas and ( until ) Bob Uecker to call baseball games on NBC ( and in association with The Baseball Network from 1994 to ).

During the 2006 MLB playoffs, the network had Morgan, their lead baseball analyst, pull double duty by calling the first half of the Mets – Dodgers playoff game at Shea Stadium before traveling across town to call the Yankees – Tigers night game at Yankee Stadium.

Their informal banter was so appealing that WHDH would call on them, as a team, to fill in when Red Sox baseball broadcasts were rained out.

His traditional home run call -- " It is gone, goodbye " or " That ball is gone, goodbye " -- is a signature phrase in baseball.

On May 28, 1956, Dale Long of the Pirates took what one author has stated was the first-ever curtain call in baseball history, after hitting home runs in eight consecutive games caused fans to cheer for five minutes.

Often though in the realm of a fantasy sport, especially baseball, certain team owners who drop a player only to regret it several hours later, call on their respective commissioners to undo or grant a mulligan in order to reverse the transaction, even though the player is in the waiver pool.

Floyd Hall, a resident of Montclair who was then serving as chief executive officer of Kmart, donated money to the university in order to build an ice arena, which is known as Floyd Hall Arena and is a multi-use facility that several of the area's high school hockey teams call home, and a new baseball stadium for Montclair State's team to replace their previous venue, Pittser Field.

Although more than capable of playing in the majors, he never got the call to the big leagues, instead spending the last years of his career as the premier player in Triple-A baseball, batting. 362 and leading all American Association third basemen in fielding percentage in 1949.

The St. Louis Cardinals farm team was the first professional baseball team to call Omaha its home.

It remains the last time in major league baseball history-and the only time since 1914-that a team deliberately forfeited a game ( as opposed to having an umpire call a forfeiture due to unruly fan behaviour ).

Such a call, known as a " catcher's balk ", is rarely seen in baseball.

Next year he picked up similar baseball duties, but the lingo is commonly stretched to call him a baseball " manager " from that time.