The Scooter

Phil Rizzuto, 1917-2007
Before my time as a player. Decades listening to Phil calling Yankee games, even after I became a Mets fan in the 70s. Sometimes infuriating when he lost track of the count as wished happy birthday to all the nuns on his list for that day. There'll be Rizzuto memories everywhere for the next week. Start with The Contrarian's dad, & this from the New York Times obit:

Rizzuto met Cora Ellenborg in 1942, after substituting for DiMaggio as a speaker at a communion breakfast in Newark. He had been invited to her home afterward for coffee and cake by her father, a Newark fire chief. “I fell in love so hard I didn’t go home,” Rizzuto recalled. He rented a hotel room nearby for a month to be near her.

Phil Rizzuto Park is three blocks from here, done with a baseball theme, but there's a soccer field, not a diamond. Huckleberries.