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Rizzuto was born on September 25, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the son of a streetcar motorman and his wife, both of whom were originally from Calabria, Italy. [2] There has been confusion about his year of birth, stemming from Rizzuto's "shaving a year off" the date at the beginning of his pro career, on the advice of teammates.
In 2006, Lucas and his second wife, Allison Pfeifle, were the first couple to be married on the field of Yankee Stadium; they had been introduced to each other by Phil Rizzuto. [7] Lucas was featured in Bleacher Boys, a 2009 documentary about blind baseball fans, [8] [9] and in an April 2018 episode of SC Featured on ESPN. [10]
Brockmire is a baseball play-by-play announcer who is fired after a profanity-filled breakdown while live on air after discovering his wife was having an affair. Azaria based the character's voice and broadcasting style on Bob Murphy and Phil Rizzuto and his sport coats on that of Lindsey Nelson. [37]
He called Yankee games from 1971 to 1988, most often teamed with Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. [20] White did the team's broadcasts on both radio and television during most of that stretch. White was the first regular black play-by-play announcer for a major-league sports team. [21] [1]
After teaching at various colleges and universities for forty years, he is now retired, works as an independent scholar, and shares a home in New Jersey with his wife Nancy A. Hewitt and their miniature poodle, Scooter (named after 1950s New York Yankees star and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto). [citation needed]
November 27 – Charlie Peete, 27, St. Louis Cardinals' rookie centerfielder, who appeared in 23 games in 1956; killed, along with his wife and three children, in a plane crash in Venezuela while reporting to his winter baseball team. November 30 – John Shea, 51, southpaw who hurled in one game for the Boston Red Sox on June 30, 1928.
Phil Donahue's second oldest son, Kevin Donahue, is an avid runner, according to Marlo Thomas, who shared a photo of him mid-race on Facebook in November 2013. "He has run The New York (Marathon ...
Rizzuto emigrated from Sicily with his family to Montreal in 1954. [8] In the 1970s, Rizzuto was an underling in the Sicilian faction, led by Luigi Greco until his death in 1972, [9] [10] of the Calabrian Cotroni crime family. As tension then grew into a power struggle between the Calabrian and Sicilian factions of the family, a mob war began ...