Love or hate the Yankees, this is cool: Bob Sheppard will return to The Stadium

They brought Sheppard in to do Reggie's last at-bat at Fenway.

 

I will unabashedly admit that one of my prized possessions is having a recording of Bob Sheppard announcing my name at Yankee Stadium.

Next to gentlemen in the dictionary there should be a picture of Bob Sheppard.

 

way cool. 8) 8) 8)

 

Don't be too impressed. His name is Reggie Jackson.

 

cool, nonetheless. 8)

 

Attention please: We have a lost child here. Will the parents of Boom 70 please come to the ticket window and bring a change of underwear.

 

Great to hear he'll be back. But what was up with this random paragraph in the middle of the story:

 

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

 

Yeah, yeah, he's a legend but his voice has always creeped me out.

 

Bob Sheppard is retiring:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4692179

Glad I got to hear him in person. "Voice of God" is an apt description.

 

Man, he comes off as so dignified and distinguished and raises the hair on the reader's arms even in his QUOTES. I could READ this man speak all day long.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091125&content_id=7717078&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

The saddest thing I've ever heard at Yankee Stadium was Sheppard asking for a moment of silence the morning after Josh Hancock's death. I thought that it had to be the dream of just about every ballplayer to have his name announced by Bob Sheppard at Yankee Stadium, even if they didn't realize the magnitude of the honor until it actually occurred.

And yet the first time Hancock had his name announced by Sheppard--Hancock never pitched at Yankee Stadium--it was to announce his death. So unspeakably sad.