BOB SHEPPARD: The Voice Of Yankee Stadium

Send us Fan MailWe are going deep into the archives for this episode of "Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin."I’ve been blessed to have a long career in broadcast journalism and meet so many intriguing people along the way.  During my years covering sports, when I spent more than a few days and nights at Yankee Stadium, there was nothing better than spending some time with the longtime public address announcer at the Stadium, Bob Sheppard.  For more than fifty years, his voice was an integral part of the experience at Yankee Stadium.  Meeting him and developing a friendship with him was one of the great joys of my life.  He was a thoughtful man, well read, kind and, to use one of his words, “mannerly.”  And he was a wonderful storyteller, without an iota of hubris despite the love and adoration he engendered.  And so when I found an old cassette from my former radio station of an interview I did with Bob in 1986 for “WNBC’s Sportsnight with Dave Sims,” I listened and smiled and wanted to share it.  Bob died in 2010.  He is still beloved and will never be forgotten.