07-22-2010, 03:31 AM
A couple more Jack Brickhouse bits:
1. Announcing the 1959 World Series was the tandem of <i>Brickhouse and Vin Scully</i>. I'd have liked to have heard them together (and Butch would have <i>loved</i> hearing it...the White Sox went down in flames).
2.Chicago columnist and lifelong Cubs fan Mike Royko's annual Cubs quiz, April 11, 1968, included the following question:
Q: Quick - When a ball goes over the left-field wall, what street does it land on?
A: Waveland Avenue. But to hear Jack Brickhouse yell, you'd think it landed in his eye.
1. Announcing the 1959 World Series was the tandem of <i>Brickhouse and Vin Scully</i>. I'd have liked to have heard them together (and Butch would have <i>loved</i> hearing it...the White Sox went down in flames).
2.Chicago columnist and lifelong Cubs fan Mike Royko's annual Cubs quiz, April 11, 1968, included the following question:
Q: Quick - When a ball goes over the left-field wall, what street does it land on?
A: Waveland Avenue. But to hear Jack Brickhouse yell, you'd think it landed in his eye.
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