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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 2358847, member: 7511"] Who could forget that great line from Mel Allen, the voice of baseball back in the 50’s & 60’s. Interesting to note that Mel Allen was fired by the Yankees in 1965 in large part because Ballantine objected to his long, folksy stories that frequently conflicted with commercial breaks. Fortunately, after George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees he rehired Allen in 1976, remembering the kindness that Allen showed a young kid years earlier when he talked to him for an hour about the kid’s interest in broadcasting. That kid was George Steinbrenner. [/QUOTE]