He spent the next three seasons with Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman and Red Barber as part of the team calling games for the New York Yankees, which included announcing Mickey Mantle’s 500th home run.

The last Yankees team to post 10-run innings in a shorter time was the 1951 New York Yankees, led by Yogi Berra, Gil McDougald, Phil Rizzuto and Joe DiMaggio.

Not only did the home run from Wells — who became the first catcher to bat leadoff in a regular season game for the Yankees — give the team an early lead, it was a historic round-tripper in ...

Wells, that was fast! The Yankees ' offense got off to a quick start in their 2025 Opening Day game against the Milwaukee Brewers, with leadoff batter Austin Wells hitting a solo home run to start ...

Meatloaf's 1978 smash “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” features a spoken interlude by New York Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto, ostensibly calling the action in a baseball game on the radio.

Messer died in 2001 and Rizzuto in 2007, shortly after one last visit from White. “I loved Rizzuto,” he said. “We laughed all the time. You should have heard it between innings.

The WNET Group President & CEO joins Steve to celebrate the careers and very special friendship of New Jersey “The Scooter” Phil Rizzuto and the always quotable Yogi Berra. One-on-One is ...

Legendary Bronx Bomber and team broadcaster Phil Rizzuto has died, the Yankees organization confirmed Tuesday. Rizzuto passed away at the age of 89 after living in a West Orange, N.J. nursing home for ...

Phil Rizzuto’s Hall of Fame speech, 1994 This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of the all-time great Hall of Fame speeches, by Phil Rizzuto in 1994. He starts with a “Holy Cow,” naturally.

Phil Rizzuto later recalled that when Casey Stengel assumed the role of Yankee manager in 1949, he brought up this incident, but Stengel pretended not to recall it. Phil Rizzuto humorously added that ...