Baseball legend Phil Rizzuto goes home - Baseball Players

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by Ted Sherman

Of course, it is appropriate to honor the Scooter for the fun and excitement he brought to baseball both on and off the field. It should also bring some thoughts about comparing him to another prominent name who also reached
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by David Skolnik

Phil Rizzutto was a proud Italian-American man who molded his Hall of Fame career on the baseball diamond and in the broadcast booth. Humble and determined, Rizzutto was not about to let anyone stand in the way of the game he
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by The Original Maverick

What can you say about "the scooter" other than he was all class and a true Yankee blue blood. Oh sure, he wasn't the hero with the great athletic body and skills of a DiMaggio (his hero) or a Mickey Mantle. Phil Rizzuto was
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by Joseph Bednar

"O it was always intense.
Just as you said
And it was not a regular
Not a regular game at all.
It was every game meant so much,
You know,
One seemed to top the other."
That's one of the many rambling nuggets collected in O Holy Cow!,
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by Donald Hutchinson Jr.

The scooter will be sorely missed, not just by Yankee fans but sports enthusiast from every walk of life. Phil Rizzuto epitomizes the quintessential American dream, from rags to riches in the vane of a Horasio Alger book, or
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by Mary E. Preece

Little Do I Know about Phil Rizzuto
That is true and very little it is except that I recognize his name. In all the years of helping to support my husband's efforts in coaching our son in Little league and bigger leagues in county
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by Joe Bomb

Holy Cow! The great legend of Yankee Baseball has passed on. I can remember like it was yesterday hearing Phil and Bill White, the 2 announcers for the Yankees during the 1970's. They made you feel like you were part of the game.
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