Batting 8th, in center field, #24, Willie Mays, #24. We just lost him. I can't stop crying. Rest in power, #24. #SayHey. 2:02. Willie's rookie season, 1951. When the hell else would he be batting eighth????
Bob Shepherd WAS Yankee Stadium. Being at "The House That Ruth Built" for the first time, when I was eight years old, in 1956, and hearing him say: "Number 7, Mickey Mantle, Center Field, Number 7, was, and still is, a thrill that gives me goose bumps and a tear, even as I write this at age 74.
If you'd like to hear Bob Sheppard say those exact words again, watch the movie "61*" You would have heard it again here as well, but Mantle tore up his knee in Game 2 of this series pursuing a short fly ball by Wilie Mays (who happened to pass today - 6/18/24).
@M Keep dreaming pal. The reason soccer is so popular in 240 countries is because the large majority of them are so poor that all it takes is a ball to entertain 25 kids or so. Baseball is America and we don't need your help, thanks. Unless you love drunken rowdy fans causing fights in the stands the world over, and 0-0 ties after 90 minutes. Very exciting sport.
Hearing Bob Sheppard's voice always instantly brings me back to my youth of going to Giants (football) and Yankee games. His crisp diction and inflection were as much a part of the sensory memories as were seeing the uniform colors or the green of the grass, and smelling the scents of the ballpark.
Take note all PA anouncers: The great ones don't scream into the microphone and draw attention to themselves. The great ones adhere to Bob Sheppars's principle of the "three c's": clear, concise, and correct. Do this for half a century and become a legend.
Imagine this were Sheppard announcing the Cavaliers with LeBron James' return. Considering the sheer excitement, in the building, his dignified drawl would sound strange.
Absolutely!! We had another great PA announcer for the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena just like Bob his name was Budd Lynch. Total classic icons who didn't scream!
My son dreamed of hearing his name done from this man. He would do his fantasy lineups in his room like this. To Baseball fans he is the Voice. Rest in Peace.
OMG, I know so many of these names, years before I was born! Baseball is truly classic!! When Bob Sheppard as the announcer, it made it priceless...*gasp*
I went to the old-timers games in the early 60s as a kid, and I was taught and learned at an early age to respect the peoples of the past. His voice was so solemn when he announced deceased Yankees from the past, no less than Ruth and Gehrig and others, and he even recounted two baseball players who died in WW2. I really felt their presence.
I'm a die hard Indians fan and I really loved Bob Sheppard as a PA announcer. It would've been my dream to step into that left handed batters box and have Bob Sheppard announce my name. I can't imagine how that would've felt.
I wish the Dodgers had been the NL team that year, so that Bob could've intoned: LEADING OFF FOR THE BROOKLYN DODGERS AND PLAYING SECOND BASE, #42, JACKIE ROBINSON... NUMBER 42. I would've cried even more than I did here. And I'm a Cardinals fan! Just brilliant.
When a person passes through the pearly gates now, it can only be fitting they be greeted with, "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen... Welcome to Heaven".... A great man, sorely missed. The stadium is not the same without him.
He should've been in Costner's FIELD OF DREAMS, where he could've announced all the players of their All Star Game. Just imagine... Playing left field for the White Sox, #5, Joe Jackson, #5. Ufff...
To echo SportsFreakfrom94598: Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. The real one, not Macombs Dam Park that looks like the old Stadium on steroids. (Appropriate though given the state of baseball in the past 20 years.) Sheppard was and is a New York City treasure and a baseball treasure, something for the Smithsonian. Thanks for the upload.
When baseball was king, and the Sheppard and the Yankees held the king's court. Sadly, those days of American MLB are gone forever. I'm so grateful to have been alive to have experienced baseball in it's Golden Age.
Bob Sheppard is the voice of the Yankees and a baseball icon. Baseball is a game that is rich in history and he has that original baseball sound to him.
It was Mantle's rookie year as well, and he was a year younger than Mays. I believe that Mantle was out of the lineup with a knee injury suffered during the Series.
@@roberthudson1959Yes. He never got completely over that injury. I think he tripped on a drain grate going for a fly ball, and that (not only that) hampered the rest of his career, as great as he was.
@gmartinz01 That makes sense to me...tonight's tribute was excellent, as was the idea of not making PA announcements in Bob Sheppard's memory... most teams think that the PA announcer should be a cheerleader...I dunno, maybe I'm stuck in 1967...
Do you have anymore lineup recreations that include Mickey Mantle? I am a diehard St. Louis Cardinals fan but this video gives me goosebumps everytime I see it and hear Bob Sheppard announce Yogi and Joe D. I've always been a big Mickey fan.
Of course, the best of all was the Cubs' Pat Pieper. There was a guy who didn't miss a game for 50 years, and used a megaphone the first 16 years he called games! Pat Pieper - a true legend of baseball.
hearing this brings back a lifetime of memories spent in both yankee and giant stadiums. for my part his voice is as equally familiar announcing "simms to bavaro" or "jaworsky to carmicheal...broken up by taylor".
Classic... Bob Sheppard the voice of God with his unique style. Note Willie Mays batting 8th. Not a bad #8 hitter. I wish I could listen to an audio of Pat Pieper @ Wrigley.
The Polo Grounds was gone by the time this video was put together, and I'm sure p.a. announcer Jim Goray is gone as well, so we'll never hear him giving the lineups for games 3-5.
It was his rookie year. They had good established hitters on this team like Monte Irvin at that time, so it was hard to justify putting a 20 year old rookie into the middle of the lineup.
me as a Met fan, I can argue about anything a Yankee fan throws at me, but Bob Sheppard was a key figure in NY Sports and one of the best PA announcers to ever live and to live to see half a century of great ball players....RIP Bob.......I know ur doing the line ups for guys like Roberto Clemente, Babe Ruth, and Jackie Robinson now.............we will all miss you
Geez, what a line up. While the Jints got to the Series as a more collaborative effort, it seems like there is an All-Star or Hall of Famer at every position for the Yanks. -mikenotpaula.
I think that was just his style, just something he did and after a while it became engrained in his presentation. I do public address, and don't do this, but for Sheppard I think it worked well. It would kind of feel empty without him repeating the number. Not sure, but I believe Sherm Feller at Fenway Park also did this.
Wow goosebumps so professional a voice from the baseball and course football giants announcer. When giants had game Sunday and yanks were in playoffs they would fly him helicopter into yankee stadium for a double
That's not true. Nobody would spend money to fly a PA announcer in a helicopter! Bob's priority was the Yankees, Giants second. If he went from one game to another he took his car like anybody else.
@@YanksAtShea a 1 clock game ending around 4 clock possibly sitting in traffic getting out stadium than sitting in more traffic to go into bronx and sit in traffic at yankee stadium for a 8 clock pitch and he's gotta be there way earlier . Absolutely the flew him out of Teterboro I was at game yrs ago when yanks had a game and this old timer told me cuz we were wondering. What u nuts steinbrenner 100% hat a chopper waiting for him it's not that much when it's your own chopper. There's no way in hell he drove his own car. Between giants and Yankees and your gonna tell me they tell him take his own car lmao yea right
@@patricklaurojr7427 I well-know Bob Sheppard's career and reputation. Why else would I have 14 videos on this page dedicated to him? Wherever you're hearing this helicopter tale, it's strictly an urban legend.
RIP Bob Sheppard. Bit of trivia---he would not announce the number if a player wore #0 or #00, only the name. @JeremySlat1993, his voice will still be heard (pre-recrorded) until Derek Jeter finally hangs up the cleats.
I did not know that one!!! An I know a lot haha about sports an my teams, an as a lifelong Bomber fan sayin Bob wouldn't announce my great centers of my teams in Basketball or Football I'm just sayin!!! #00 Robert Parrish n #00 Jim Otto....RiP the Great Bob Sheppard!!! Always got a kick out of when he was doin Yankee promotional days/games like its Yankee team Cup day here at the Stadium haha, RiP real Yankee stadium too, the House that oh yeah that #3 built!!!!!Bambino!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐕🐻🐅🐳🐖🐄
Batting 8th, in center field, #24, Willie Mays, #24.
We just lost him. I can't stop crying. Rest in power, #24. #SayHey. 2:02.
Willie's rookie season, 1951. When the hell else would he be batting eighth????
It's amazing how Bob's voice echoes throughout Yankee Stadium.
I came back to this video today to hear Bob Shepard announce and the crowd applaud Willie Mays who died yesterday . RIP WILLIE!
Bob Shepherd WAS Yankee Stadium. Being at "The House That Ruth Built" for the first time, when I was eight years old, in 1956, and hearing him say: "Number 7, Mickey Mantle, Center Field, Number 7, was, and still is, a thrill that gives me goose bumps and a tear, even as I write this at age 74.
I wrote the above comment. My mother, a great baseball fan, took my older brother Phil and me there for my birthday.
If you'd like to hear Bob Sheppard say those exact words again, watch the movie "61*" You would have heard it again here as well, but Mantle tore up his knee in Game 2 of this series pursuing a short fly ball by Wilie Mays (who happened to pass today - 6/18/24).
Can you hear the happiness when he simply says “ willie mays “
Wilie a legend man he 89 now
This is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Adande said it best today -- " Your attention please. Now ascending to heaven, Number 1, PA announcer, Bob Sheppard. Number 1. "
I'm a Giants fan for life, but this is just beautiful
The voice that introduces you to Heaven.
# TOYSPOTTING 👍🏻
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to heaven
The next voice you hear after that, is that of John Facenda.
Bob Shepherd and John Madden would be the voices of my heaven
@M Keep dreaming pal. The reason soccer is so popular in 240 countries is because the large majority of them are so poor that all it takes is a ball to entertain 25 kids or so. Baseball is America and we don't need your help, thanks. Unless you love drunken rowdy fans causing fights in the stands the world over, and 0-0 ties after 90 minutes. Very exciting sport.
There's something so surreal about applause for empty spaces, and yet so understandable.
I was at this game in1999. I saved all the memoribilia from that day!
Hearing Bob Sheppard's voice always instantly brings me back to my youth of going to Giants (football) and Yankee games. His crisp diction and inflection were as much a part of the sensory memories as were seeing the uniform colors or the green of the grass, and smelling the scents of the ballpark.
IS THIS HEAVEN?
Listen to the applause for The Say Hey Kid.
That's RESPECT.
I love the roar for the beloved Phil Rizzuto, as well.
Take note all PA anouncers: The great ones don't scream into the microphone and draw attention to themselves. The great ones adhere to Bob Sheppars's principle of the "three c's": clear, concise, and correct. Do this for half a century and become a legend.
Imagine this were Sheppard announcing the Cavaliers with LeBron James' return. Considering the sheer excitement, in the building, his dignified drawl would sound strange.
Absolutely!! We had another great PA announcer for the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena just like Bob his name was Budd Lynch. Total classic icons who didn't scream!
My son dreamed of hearing his name done from this man. He would do his fantasy lineups in his room like this. To Baseball fans he is the Voice. Rest in Peace.
Powerful! Wow! What I wouldn't give to have been alive during baseball's golden age!
Dwayne Goodwin same here . Hahaha I would of sat in a specific section but I’m ok with that hahahah
OMG, I know so many of these names, years before I was born! Baseball is truly classic!!
When Bob Sheppard as the announcer, it made it priceless...*gasp*
This man perfected what a PA announcer should be yet today instead we get guys yelling at us while we’re trying to enjoy a ballgame.
I have a lump in my throat as I listen to this.
RIP Bob Sheppard. You will be missed, but never forgotten.
This is Truly touching, I never heard this before
I’m in tears now. However if I had been in person at this ballgame in be crying like baby and…..I wouldn’t have been alone either! Very nicely done!
I went to the old-timers games in the early 60s as a kid, and I was taught and learned at an early age to respect the peoples of the past. His voice was so solemn when he announced deceased Yankees from the past, no less than Ruth and Gehrig and others, and he even recounted two baseball players who died in WW2. I really felt their presence.
I'm a die hard Indians fan and I really loved Bob Sheppard as a PA announcer. It would've been my dream to step into that left handed batters box and have Bob Sheppard announce my name. I can't imagine how that would've felt.
Don Straley now batting for the indians the designated hitter number 1 Don Straley number 1
I just cried.. Thanks for this!
The voice of baseball. Even though the spots seemed empty I can picture each play walking out to there positions.
@1:58, any Beatles fan would play this second over and over again
I got chills listening to this
I wish the Dodgers had been the NL team that year, so that Bob could've intoned: LEADING OFF FOR THE BROOKLYN DODGERS AND PLAYING SECOND BASE, #42, JACKIE ROBINSON... NUMBER 42.
I would've cried even more than I did here. And I'm a Cardinals fan! Just brilliant.
When a person passes through the pearly gates now, it can only be fitting they be greeted with, "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen... Welcome to Heaven"....
A great man, sorely missed. The stadium is not the same without him.
I could listen to this man speak all day. He has a spine-tingling voice. He is the greatest P.A. announcer of all time--no doubt!
salute to you sheppard
chills.....in a word-"SPECIAL"
Rizzuto Berra and DiMaggio. Legends
The voice......WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER AS GREAT .....
They should've worked this roll call of a lineup into the movie Field of Dreams. I'm sure Costner would've loved it.
He should've been in Costner's FIELD OF DREAMS, where he could've announced all the players of their All Star Game. Just imagine... Playing left field for the White Sox, #5, Joe Jackson, #5. Ufff...
This gave me tears and chills. ❤
batting 4th in centerfield number five joe damaggio number five
"the voice of god" i got goosebumps listening to this he will be missed
Number One, Of All Time, Bob Sheppard,Number One!! R.I.P, Bob, You Will Be Missed.
To echo SportsFreakfrom94598: Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. The real one, not Macombs Dam Park that looks like the old Stadium on steroids. (Appropriate though given the state of baseball in the past 20 years.) Sheppard was and is a New York City treasure and a baseball treasure, something for the Smithsonian. Thanks for the upload.
Almost became a Yankee fan...Thank you
When baseball was king, and the Sheppard and the Yankees held the king's court. Sadly, those days of American MLB are gone forever. I'm so grateful to have been alive to have experienced baseball in it's Golden Age.
the voice of my youth. Class personified. He trained lay readers in the Catholic church for decades.
...Bob Sheppard...Super!!!...glad I got to Yankee stadium twice to hear heim live and see the Yanks!!
I am happy i got to enjoy the voice of the yankees when i was a kid. Legendary
Chills
That sensation you just felt was a chill running up your spine...
What class and style .
Simply amazing
Priceless........
Bob Sheppard is the voice of the Yankees and a baseball icon. Baseball is a game that is rich in history and he has that original baseball sound to him.
He truly was THE VOICE OF GOD....long live Bob Sheppard...
Hard to believe Willie Mays was hitting 8th. Had to be his rookie season.
Yes it was. He was only 20 years old when that game was played
Fax
It was Mantle's rookie year as well, and he was a year younger than Mays. I believe that Mantle was out of the lineup with a knee injury suffered during the Series.
@@roberthudson1959Yes. He never got completely over that injury. I think he tripped on a drain grate going for a fly ball, and that (not only that) hampered the rest of his career, as great as he was.
priceless!!
RIP
its going 2 be weird never to here his voice again Rip bob
@gmartinz01 That makes sense to me...tonight's tribute was excellent, as was the idea of not making PA announcements in Bob Sheppard's memory... most teams think that the PA announcer should be a cheerleader...I dunno, maybe I'm stuck in 1967...
RIP Bob!
R.I.P. BOB
It was so long ago that Mays was just some young player no one knew who batted just ahead of the pitcher.
He was only 20 years old when that game was played
His Rookie season just like the Mick!!!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐻🐳🐕🐅🐖🐄
You're welcome and most correct!!
RIP Bob Sheppard. (1910-2010)
I get chills listening to this. RIP Bob, from a Rangers fan in Texas. Announcers like you were a rare thing. You will be missed.
RIP Bob......
Baseball is a hollowed sport. Sacred and revered.
Bob Sheppard could have read the ingredients on the side of a cereal box and make it sound prophetic and calming all at once
Do you have anymore lineup recreations that include Mickey Mantle? I am a diehard St. Louis Cardinals fan but this video gives me goosebumps everytime I see it and hear Bob Sheppard announce Yogi and Joe D. I've always been a big Mickey fan.
If you don’t get goosebumps, you either don’t like baseball or don’t have a soul
Of course, the best of all was the Cubs' Pat Pieper. There was a guy who didn't miss a game for 50 years, and used a megaphone the first 16 years he called games! Pat Pieper - a true legend of baseball.
hearing this brings back a lifetime of memories spent in both yankee and giant stadiums. for my part his voice is as equally familiar announcing "simms to bavaro" or "jaworsky to carmicheal...broken up by taylor".
Classic... Bob Sheppard the voice of God with his unique style. Note Willie Mays batting 8th. Not a bad #8 hitter. I wish I could listen to an audio of Pat Pieper @ Wrigley.
Does anyone know what the music is from in the background? It sounds like it's either from the Natural or the Sandlot soundtrack.
Field of Dreams
The Polo Grounds was gone by the time this video was put together, and I'm sure p.a. announcer Jim Goray is gone as well, so we'll never hear him giving the lineups for games 3-5.
Willie Mays batting 8th?
It was his rookie year. They had good established hitters on this team like Monte Irvin at that time, so it was hard to justify putting a 20 year old rookie into the middle of the lineup.
@AEMoreira81 I did not know that about the #0 or #00
The Voice of God Simply the greatest Annoucer of all time.
r.ip mr. sheppard.
me as a Met fan, I can argue about anything a Yankee fan throws at me, but Bob Sheppard was a key figure in NY Sports and one of the best PA announcers to ever live and to live to see half a century of great ball players....RIP Bob.......I know ur doing the line ups for guys like Roberto Clemente, Babe Ruth, and Jackie Robinson now.............we will all miss you
@SportsFreakfrom94598 he is as an announcer
Geez, what a line up. While the Jints got to the Series as a more collaborative effort, it seems like there is an All-Star or Hall of Famer at every position for the Yanks. -mikenotpaula.
God Sheppard
Bob Sheppard the voice of God -
When he said Phil Rizzuto I though about the Money Store
Willie was just a rookie in 1951.
Sinply said, it is the Voice of God.
I've always wondered why Mr. Sheppard gave the uniform number twice...
I think that was just his style, just something he did and after a while it became engrained in his presentation. I do public address, and don't do this, but for Sheppard I think it worked well. It would kind of feel empty without him repeating the number. Not sure, but I believe Sherm Feller at Fenway Park also did this.
It was the Great Bob Sheppard's Shtick!!!...🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐳🐕🐅🐻🐖🐄
Wow goosebumps so professional a voice from the baseball and course football giants announcer. When giants had game Sunday and yanks were in playoffs they would fly him helicopter into yankee stadium for a double
That's not true. Nobody would spend money to fly a PA announcer in a helicopter! Bob's priority was the Yankees, Giants second. If he went from one game to another he took his car like anybody else.
@@YanksAtShea a 1 clock game ending around 4 clock possibly sitting in traffic getting out stadium than sitting in more traffic to go into bronx and sit in traffic at yankee stadium for a 8 clock pitch and he's gotta be there way earlier . Absolutely the flew him out of Teterboro I was at game yrs ago when yanks had a game and this old timer told me cuz we were wondering. What u nuts steinbrenner 100% hat a chopper waiting for him it's not that much when it's your own chopper. There's no way in hell he drove his own car. Between giants and Yankees and your gonna tell me they tell him take his own car lmao yea right
@@YanksAtShea Bob shepard wasn't just some old PA announcer guy did it for 60 yrs they been flying him for long time
@@YanksAtShea and also it wasn't a every week thing it was maybe 1 or 2 Sundays every few yrs
@@patricklaurojr7427 I well-know Bob Sheppard's career and reputation. Why else would I have 14 videos on this page dedicated to him? Wherever you're hearing this helicopter tale, it's strictly an urban legend.
@SportsFreakfrom94598 he is
@SportsFreakfrom94598 give it time, he will be in soon
RIP Bob Sheppard.
Bit of trivia---he would not announce the number if a player wore #0 or #00, only the name.
@JeremySlat1993, his voice will still be heard (pre-recrorded) until Derek Jeter finally hangs up the cleats.
I did not know that one!!! An I know a lot haha about sports an my teams, an as a lifelong Bomber fan sayin Bob wouldn't announce my great centers of my teams in Basketball or Football I'm just sayin!!! #00 Robert Parrish n #00 Jim Otto....RiP the Great Bob Sheppard!!! Always got a kick out of when he was doin Yankee promotional days/games like its Yankee team Cup day here at the Stadium haha, RiP real Yankee stadium too, the House that oh yeah that #3 built!!!!!Bambino!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐕🐻🐅🐳🐖🐄
@SportsFreakfrom94598 hopefully he will eventually
The voice of god.
@markko17 ,
Strange, indeed.
Mantle tore his knee up in game 2 I believe. That's why he isn't in the lineup.
Yeah, that’s right. His dad collapsed while carrying him to the hospital and died in the bed right beside him and he resented Joe D because of it.
Had Don Mueller not broken his ankle the previous day,the Giants may have won.
Voice of god
that's when baseball WAS baseball
Why the hell did Durocher have Willie Mays batting 8th?!!? No wonder they lost the series!!