Saw him at a Reds-at-Indians spring training game in Winter Haven probably seven or eight springs ago. Although I gather he was a near-constant presence hitched to the Tribe during Grapefruit League seasons for many years, there was still a line for autographs.
As for MLBTV tonight, it's the closest fans like me will ever get to seeing our Buccos win a World Series. I did remark to a friend that this couldn't be the broadcast as it was seen by viewers in 1960 -- because how could they tell whether the game would be followed by an all-new episode of Bones without the aid of on-screen graphics? On the other hand, hearing Mel Allen call the game makes it seem like not so very long ago. I feel lucky to have been born juuuust early enough that my early childhood was still defined by the four-channel universe... so Allen's voice takes me back to Saturday middays in an instant. We had 'em all the way. Beau ====== AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau www.facebook.com/damonbeau www.twitter.com/damonbeau On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 00:07, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 15, 2010, at 8:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> When I was at mom's at Thanksgiving, we got caught up in MLBtv (I don't get >> it at home, damn you, DISH). I don't recall the name of the show, but they >> were doing basically a marathon of baseball history hosted by the Elfin >> Sports Boy including quite a bit of Bob Feller. I was kind of surprised to >> see he was still living. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
