Red Grange, when he did color commentary for Lindsey Nelson on the football game of the week, always described a team in the plural ("Yale are doing this," "Villanova are doing that"). And Dizzy Dean angered the nation's teachers when he told his radio audience "So what if I say he 'slud into 2nd' or he was 'thoed out at 1st.' Heck, I only went up to 3rd grade, and that was one past my pappy." But at least they described the game, in a colorful way. Unlike good-hit/field -- but overrated broadcaster -- Phil Rizzuto, who spent too much mike time telling us which of his friends were having birthdays today, or whom he had golfed with over the weekend, or which baseball personalities he didn't like ("huckleberries," he called them).
