I grew up with Phil Rizzuto on color for the Yankees. Like Harry Carey, he was not an objectively good announcer, but he was certainly entertaining.
Bill White was a great announcer, as were Jim Kaat and Ken Singleton. Bobby Murcer was fun and used to raz Rizzuto all the time.
Tom Seaver was really, really good, but I think got canned after 1 season for being too critical of the home team.
I think Chuck Katon is the finest announcer I’ve ever heard on the Radio. He worked Whalers games, and we used to turn down the volume on the TV and play the radio feed instead, when we watched Whalers games.
You could literally see the passes in your head, and visualize the Hockey fights, whenever you listened to Katon working a game on the radio. It was amazing.
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