Phil Rizzuto had the great fortune to work with immortals. As a ball player, he was a scrappy, skinny slap hitter who batted leadoff for New York Yankee juggernauts of the 1940s and '50s, teams that ...
Baseball is mourning the loss of its oldest living Hall of Famer. Phil Rizzuto died Monday at the age of 89. The Yankee shortstop known as The Scooter won seven World Series titles, captured an MVP ...
NEW YORK – Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop and longtime New York Yankees broadcaster Phil Rizzuto died Tuesday, the team announced. He was 89. Rizzuto had been in declining health for several years ...
NEW YORK (AP) Phil Rizzuto, the Hall of Fame shortstop during the Yankees dynasty years and beloved by a generation of fans who delighted in hearing him exclaim Holy cow! as a broadcaster, died ...
Because the criteria for what makes a Hall of Famer has become confusing in recent years, it is worth comparing baseball players not in the Hall with those who are. By Benjamin Hoffman The Library of ...
(New York) -- The New York Yankees say Hall of Fame shortstop Phill Rizzuto has died.Rizzuto had been in declining health for several years and was living at a nursing home in West Orange, New ...
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 available to ...
Born in Brooklyn, Phil first tried out for the home-team Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935. At that time Casey Stengel was the manager of the Dodgers. He told Rizzuto to go get a shoeshine box, because he was ...
NEW YORK – His speed and spunk made him a Hall of Famer.”Holy cow!” made Phil Rizzuto famous.Popular as a player and beloved as a broadcaster, the New York Yankees shortstop during their dynasty years ...