Public address announcer at Yankee Stadium, 1951-2007. His rich, resonant voice and eloquent style are still the standard by which other stadium PA announcers are judged.

First Yankees game behind the microphone was 17 April 1951. Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Phil Rizzuto, and Yogi Berra were in the Yankees lineup; Ted Williams was in the Boston Red Sox lineup.

NFL New York Giants public address announcer, 1956-2006.

B.A. in speech (St. John's); M.A. (Columbia)

An executive for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference heard him announcing a charity football game. The Dodgers hired him but folded after one season (1948). He then went to work for the football New York Yankees. He did not accept an offer from the baseball Yankees until Yankee P.R. director Red Patterson agreed to hire him an understudy for Monday-Friday day games during April, May, and early June when he was needed at John Adams High School in Queens, New York City as the head of its Speech Department.