Word: allenated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago Yogi Berra was asked what he thought of Mel Allen as a sportscaster. "Too many woids," said Berra...
Last week 51 -year-old Mel Allen's protean output of woids dropped momentarily to zero. As the World Series opened, the Voice of the Yankees was in Stamford, Conn., watching the game on television with friends. In his place the Yanks installed Phil Rizzuto, the once Yankee shortstop who has been broadcasting Yankee games as a colleague of Allen's for eight years...
Words & Scholarships. Questions started rising like pop flies, asking who held the hatchet. But clearly the Yankees had sacked their own man. Allen's contract runs out this year, and the Yankees have been holding secret talks with other announcers for weeks...
...Allen has been gabbing for pay ever since his student days at the University of Alabama, when, as Mel Israel, he broadcast Alabama baseball and football games and was so renowned for his glibness and precocity (he matriculated at 15) that he was nicknamed Skyrocket. Son of a dry-goods merchant, he studied law but before he started practice he got a call to big-time broadcasting and could not resist it. Almost at once he was assigned to the Yankees, and the Yankees have been a major part of his life for 25 years. He has never married...
Another reason Allen may be through is that for all his knowledge of baseball, he cannot speak with the assured insight of a fellow who has once played the major league game. In the booth where Allen would have been sitting last week were Rizzuto and Joe Garagiola, who once caught for the Cardinals. Baseball players, brainwise, used to be presumed capable of little more skill in the arts of communication than a repertory of meta-laryngeal grunts. But Rizzuto and Garagiola are both articulate, witty, catlike on top of the play by play, and full of first-person-singular...