RIP The Voice of God

Bob Sheppard has passed away. http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/ ... -1.2095992

For those that don't know, my mother taught with his wife Mary for years. While I've met Mary, I never met Bob.

RIP to one of the greatest people in the yankees organization

probably one of the 5 classiest men to live in the last 50 years, and im not saying that cus im a yankee fan. Bob Sheppard had 0 enemies and was loved by everyone. very sad news.

He will be missed.

I wonder if the Yankees completed the Bob Shepperd voice project so future yankees can be introduced by "him".

I still get goosebumps when he introduces Jeter....
Have had this on my desk for years:

RIP Bob was a great man and had a amazing voice. He will be missed

BigAppleJak said:

I still get goosebumps when he introduces Jeter....
Have had this on my desk for years:

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Very nice! I have a small stock pile of his base cards but I've always wanted his auto for my PC. I sent a TTM request but it was RTS.

What made him a great man? I mean, I liked his voice, too, but how do people know he wasn't a complete dick?

smapdi said:

What made him a great man? I mean, I liked his voice, too, but how do people know he wasn't a complete dick?

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Oh here is an idea smap, wake up on a Sunday morning and do the biggest ****** thing you can think of, oh never mind you already did it.

RIP... its sad to see so many of the orators of the game leave us.

smapdi said:

What made him a great man? I mean, I liked his voice, too, but how do people know he wasn't a complete dick?

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I'd imagine there have been a lot of interviews and features over the years that one can get a sense of what he was like. If not, I'm sure there will be friends coming out of the woodwork in the next few days to talk to the media as the media do stories about his life.

I heard that they are going to play his voice for when Jeter walks in.

Not to bright on Stadium announcers, but he sounded like a great man. RIP

I am still missing Bob Casey, who I had the privelige of listening to in my younger years.

TBTwinsFan said:

I heard that they are going to play his voice for when Jeter walks in.

Not to bright on Stadium announcers, but he sounded like a great man. RIP

I am still missing Bob Casey, who I had the privelige of listening to in my younger years.

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Jeter's been using a recording of his voice for a few years now. I think the story is that Sheppard missed one game for whatever reason, and Jeter said that he only never wanted to be announced by anyone else at home again.

And, seriously, smapdi? Have a little respect.

Only Yankee employee in the more than 35 years of George Steinbrenner's ownership who was never threatened with being fired by the Boss. However, he did come close. In a game against the Toronto Blue Jays in September of 1985, Steinbrenner became infuriated after a guest singer named Mary O'Dowd butchered the Canadian national anthem, and the next day arranged for an apology to be announced to the citizens of Canada. Sheppard was having dinner in the Stadium press room when the call came down from Steinbrenner's secretary that his presence was required in the owner's office upstairs.

"Tell him I'll be up as soon as I finish my dinner," Sheppard said.

When informed of Sheppard's response, Steinbrenner was taken aback.

"Doesn't he know who owns this team?" he bellowed.

About 15 minutes later, Sheppard arrived in Steinbrenner's office, took his seat to the right of the Yankee boss at the big round table, and handed him a piece of paper on which he'd written his own version of the apology. Steinbrenner, who had already drafted a three-page statement, citing the Canadians for, among other things, their help in the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran, perused the one Sheppard had written and said: "Okay, that's fine, but I want to add some other things."

"I don't think that would be a good idea," Sheppard said, to Steinbrenner's further astonishment. "It should be succinct."

"I must say," Sheppard told me one of the last times we talked on the phone, "in all the years with George, he never yelled at me or had a cross word with me or tried to force some announcement on me that I didn't think appropriate."

To Pills:

Ahh, I just heard something about it at the 08 AS game.

Yeah those stadium announcers miss like 1-2 games every 10 years, if that...

To championMan:

I never realized that Steinbrenner was such a hard@$$.

TBTwinsFan said:

To championMan:

I never realized that Steinbrenner was such a hard@$$.

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Sport people call him "The Boss" for a reason

TBTwinsFan said:

To Pills:

Ahh, I just heard something about it at the 08 AS game.

Yeah those stadium announcers miss like 1-2 games every 10 years, if that...

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Bob did the PA work for the Football Giants from 1956 to 2006, and for the Yankees from 1951 to 2007.

The Yankees' lineup for Sheppard's first game on April 17, 1951, included DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Mize, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto. And the opponents that day, the Boston Red Sox, were led by Ted Williams.

Great article the yankees have on the site about him. Remember the 1st time I heard him at a game, Very surreal moment, Was lucky enough to hear him say names of some of the greats at old timer games. A sad lose indeed for a lot of people, He was a institution in this game. Like Mel Allen, Vin Scully, Harry Carey, Harry Kalis and the countless guys who add that much to the game.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/art ... -146957316