The Greatest Baseball Announcers: Bob Sheppard & Vin Scully

by Richard Kostelanetz (April 2015)

For Clayelle Dalfares, The great NYC classical music “disk jockey.”

BOB SHEPPARD (1910-2010)

Whenever I went to Yankee Stadium more than a decade ago, I would advise those beside me to listen appreciatively to Bob Sheppard, the Stadium’s legendary public address announcer. His most extraordinary talent was not just enunciating every syllable clearly but speaking so patiently, pausing after every phrase, typically repeating uniform numbers both before and after announcing a player’s name.  more>>>