The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.