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Phillies radio man Scott Franzke wants to be working this October
The guy on the stage last week conducting the question-and-answer session with front-office personnel, players and manager Charlie Manuel at the Phillies Winter Banquet may not have been instantly recognizable to the 1,100 people gathered at the Sands...
Tags: Football, Auto Racing, Roy Halladay, Tony Soprano (fictional character), Ryan Howard
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Orioles broadcasters Angel and Hunter up for Ford C. Frick Award
The Baltimore SunTwo Orioles broadcasters are among 41 still in the running for the 2013 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Radio voice Joe Angel and MASN studio host and play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter are in the group...Tags: Ron Santo, Lou Boudreau, Dick Enberg, Voting, Phil Rizzuto
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Reading to get spotlight on all-star coverage
After a recent 12-games-in-11 days stretch at Coca-Cola Park, you'd think the Service Electric Cable crew that produces all of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs games would want a break from baseball. Well, maybe some of the guys would like a break but they'...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, Joe Buck, Vin Scully, Service Electric Inc., Minor League Baseball
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T-Mac reminisces about Musser
The Phillies FilesIt takes a special kind of person to take a back seat doing the job you love. Andy Musser was that kind of person. Musser, who died at the age of 74 on Monday, spent 26 years as a Phillies...... -
Sports Legend Revealed: Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn indirectly led to the naming of the band Yo La Tengo
The Fabulous ForumBASEBALL LEGEND: Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn indirectly led to the naming of the band Yo La Tengo. STATUS: True. Baseball and music are irresistibly linked together. When you go to a baseball game, you stand for the National Anthem,...... -
Scoreboard
TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...Tags: George Weiss, Rube Foster, Sam Thompson, Waite Hoyt, Politics
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Did you know?
The Morning Calltable.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-firstrow td {background-color: #E11414; color: #FFF; font-...Tags: Mike Schmidt, Robin Roberts, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays, Coca-Cola Co.
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Harry Kalas dies at 73; voice of Phillies and NFL Films
![Harry Kalas, the longtime voice of baseball's Philadelphia Phillies who also had a familiar role as an announcer on NFL radio broadcasts and as the narrator of the league's action for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofL-0BYALS8">NFL Films</a>, died Monday. He was 73.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46268328-13145324.jpg "Harry Kalas, the longtime voice of baseball's Philadelphia Phillies who also had a familiar role as an announcer on NFL radio broadcasts and as the narrator of the league's action for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofL-0BYALS8\">NFL Films</a>, died Monday. He was 73.")
From Times Staff And Wire ReportsHarry Kalas, the longtime voice of baseball's Philadelphia Phillies who also had a familiar role as an announcer on NFL radio broadcasts and as the narrator of the league's action for NFL Films, died Monday. He was 73. Kalas, who punctuated innumerable...Tags: Movies, Philadelphia Phillies, Football, Death, Major League Baseball
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Harry Kalas Reactions
!["Harry was a special friend of mine and my family for 44 years. Baseball broadcasters become an integral part of baseball fans' families. They are in the homes of fans every day for the entire season. No one will ever be able to match the joy Harry and Richie Ashburn brought to our fans for all those years. He had a great voice, understood and loved the game, and loved people. That's why I brought him here in 1971. My family and I and all of our fans will always have a place in our hearts for Harry."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46268511-13133601.jpg ""Harry was a special friend of mine and my family for 44 years. Baseball broadcasters become an integral part of baseball fans' families. They are in the homes of fans every day for the entire season. No one will ever be able to match the joy Harry and Richie Ashburn brought to our fans for all those years. He had a great voice, understood and loved the game, and loved people. That's why I brought him here in 1971. My family and I and all of our fans will always have a place in our hearts for Harry.\"")
Staff reporter"Harry was a special friend of mine and my family for 44 years. Baseball broadcasters become an integral part of baseball fans' families. They are in the homes of fans every day for the entire season. No one will ever be able to match the joy Harry and...Tags: Mike Schmidt, Hot Dogs, Lifestyle and Leisure, Philadelphia Phillies, Family
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Year-by-year inductees
(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Joe Williams, George Weiss, Rube Foster, Nellie Fox, Sam Thompson
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Numbers bear it out: Robinson among best
Tribune staff reporterLost amid the golden anniversary celebration of major-league baseball's integration is an unanswerable question: What if Jackie Robinson had turned out to be a flop? In his "Grand Experiment," Branch Rickey was looking for a player who was a supremely...Tags: Jackie Robinson, Philadelphia Phillies, Mark Shapiro, Crimes, Branch Rickey
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