Phil (nicknamed Scooter) was one of the great Yankee shortstop's from 1941 to 1956, and won 8 world series titles with them. He was a broadcaster for 40 years and "Holy Cow!" was he a great color man. If you never saw or heard him speak, you have to watch his Hall of Fame induction speech to get a true feeling for his personality and what a great guy he was. Click here to read the story, watch his speech and see plenty of clips of Phil doing what he loved.................talking baseball. I grew up watching Phil and Bill White calling the games on WPIX in NY. I met him when I was a kid and worked baseball card shows. His signature is among the collection of signed baseballs I have. He was very friendly and always smiling.For those of you that don't follow baseball, Phil Rizzuto is the play-by-play announcer in the MeatLoaf song, "Paridise by the Dashboard Light".
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I thought that I knew Rizzuto but I never put two and two together and figure out that he was the announcer for Paradise in the Dashboard Lights.
Phil Rizzuto is best known for his commercials in WPIX for The Money Store. It seemed that commercial was on every break when I was a kid.
Steve
Heavy Metal Addiction
Hey I'm not sure I knew Phil did the Paradise by the Dashboard Light, but now that you mentioned it.......I can't believe I never realized it. HUH.
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