RIP
(from NewYorkTimes)
For Franchise, Sheppard’s Voice Was Sound of Tradition
A few times every season, Bob Sheppard would visit the training room at Yankee Stadium. The Voice of God needed soothing. “He would very politely ask, ‘May I have a few lozenges?’ ” said Gene Monahan, the Yankees’ head trainer. “And he’s one of those guys who knew how to say that word. It took me 20 years. Other people can’t say that word, but he had a perfect way, as he did with everything else.” Players have long tried to imitate the rich, authoritative tones of Sheppard, the Yankees’ beloved public-address announcer, who died Sunday morning at 99. But, in the words of Mariano Rivera, his voice is "irreplaceable." READ MORE
