Sports
NEW YORK -- 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!”
Aug. 15, 2007
Rizzuto obituary: The obituary of New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto in Wednesday’s California section said his lifetime fielding percentage was at least .930.
Aug. 17, 2007
Yankee Oldtimers Day used to be ... well, it used to be glory to the highest.
July 17, 1990
Dodgers
Sandy Koufax and Phil Rizzuto are identified with the Dodgers and New York Yankees, but according to the book “The Ballplayers,” things could have been much different.
March 26, 1997
Interested in golf? Restaurants? Anniversaries? Birthdays?
April 20, 1986
“Like General MacArthur, I shall return,” New York Yankees broadcaster Phil Rizzuto said.
Sept. 26, 1990
Music
Rizzuto had already gone to ‘Paradise’ Phil Rizzuto passed away Monday, but we will always have his performance on Meat Loaf’s 1977 single “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” for which Jeff Pearlman of ESPN.com is grateful.
Phil Rizzuto became the 12th Yankee to have his uniform number retired when the Yankees honored him at a pregame ceremony at New York.
Aug. 5, 1985
World & Nation
Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankees broadcaster, is expected to be released in a day or two from a New York hospital where he had an angioplasti performed to detect any possible blockages in the arteries.
Aug. 15, 1985
With the induction of Tony Perez and Sparky Anderson, the 1975 and 1976 Cincinnati Reds became the 41st and 42nd World Series championship teams to have at least four members in the Hall of Fame, and only the fourth since 1960.
July 24, 2000