Word: boggess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dusty Boggess, 64, one of baseball's best-known men in blue during 19 years as a National League umpire; in Dallas. A burly, rubber-faced Texan, Boggess was the target of one of the game's more notable rhubarbs-on July 4, 1945, when he thumbed out the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo Durocher, bringing down such a rain of missiles that cops had to hustle him from the field. His peers, however, rated him high enough to ump five All-Star games and four World Series...
...some watchers, it is all business. They just give the facts, with no frills. Others develop a distinctive line of patter. They try to cheer up stalled motorists with a little humor. "There must be a lot of ladies out tonight," Warren Boggess of San Francisco's KSFO likes to say. "I see cars swerving in and out of traffic lanes." Reporting for New York's WCBS, Bob Richardson and Neal Busch call themselves "Orville" and "Wilbur," their helicopters "help-o-copters." Last month Los Angeles' KABC hired a pair of chatty girls, blonde Kelly Lange...