Frank's last game as a Yankee announcer. He was sadly let go in the off-season after an 18 year run in the Yankee booth. IMO his work has been grossly underappreciated by broadcast historians.
+epaddon All very true. I have the full game broadcast on tape, and Messer and John Gordon did an excellent broadcast. I never understood why Messer was gone after the 1985 season. He and Gordon should have been the Yankees radio broadcast crew for several more years after that, or until Messer retired. They would have been perfect.
I recorded the 9th inning and postgame of this originally and later grafted that to the full game broadcast so I have Frank's very last words as a Yankee announcer. I came across a Newsday article from 1986 that revealed how he'd gotten an abrupt dismissal phone call from a front office guy and that he was going to get a front office job instead which he'd be free to leave if he got another announcing job with another team and he ended up doing the White Sox for two years. After that he never had another regular PBP job again sadly. The Yankees did bring him back to emcee Old Timers Day but never rehired him for the booth which was a real shame. He and Phil Rizzuto and Bill White are the reason why I became a Yankee fan.
Frank's last game as a Yankee announcer. He was sadly let go in the off-season after an 18 year run in the Yankee booth. IMO his work has been grossly underappreciated by broadcast historians.
+epaddon
All very true.
I have the full game broadcast on tape, and Messer and John
Gordon did an excellent broadcast. I never understood why Messer was gone after
the 1985 season. He and Gordon should have been the Yankees radio broadcast
crew for several more years after that, or until Messer retired. They would
have been perfect.
I recorded the 9th inning and postgame of this originally and later grafted that to the full game broadcast so I have Frank's very last words as a Yankee announcer. I came across a Newsday article from 1986 that revealed how he'd gotten an abrupt dismissal phone call from a front office guy and that he was going to get a front office job instead which he'd be free to leave if he got another announcing job with another team and he ended up doing the White Sox for two years. After that he never had another regular PBP job again sadly. The Yankees did bring him back to emcee Old Timers Day but never rehired him for the booth which was a real shame. He and Phil Rizzuto and Bill White are the reason why I became a Yankee fan.