Yankees legend Phil Rizzuto died at age 89. Normally I wouldn't care about a Yankees legend but Rizzuto was a great man, and a part of my childhood.
I remember watching him call the Andy Hawkins no-hitter (that he lost) and Rizzuto correctly predicted that Kevin Maas was about to drop a flyball.
My dad was fond of Rizzuto's lax approach to scorekeeping. His book was full of WWs, which stood for "wasn't watching."
Even though Rizzuto was a homer, for the Yankees, he was a lovable homer and maybe George was right, "heaven needed a shortstop."
Two things I will always remember about the Scooter:
His Money Store commercials:
His name is hard to spell:
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