Phil Rizzuto died last night at the age of 89. As a kid in 1970s, I listened to his quirky broadcasts of Yankees games all the time. He also did memorable pitches for The Money Store, which was probably a mob front.
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Bummer.
“This is Phil Rizzuto for The Money Store…”
I wonder if there’s any YouTube video of when the Yankees gave him the “holy” cow.
Nope, but there is this video of a Money Store commercial
Phil Mushnick had a nice column today about Rizzuto’s near-constant mistakes and his charming self-effacedness: “What, White? He caught that ball? Ho-lee cow, I thought it got past him. What was I watching?”
White, you huckleberry….
Jeff Pearlman has a great column about “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” today.