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Some disrespectful fans in these parts often unleashed a special yowl when Eddie Yost, the Washington Senators' longtime leadoff man, strode to the plate in the 1950s: "Take the bat off your shoulder, Eddie!"
Some disrespectful fans in these parts often unleashed a special yowl when Eddie Yost, the Washington Senators' longtime leadoff man, strode to the plate in the 1950s: "Take the bat off your shoulder, Eddie!"
Nat Allbright wasn't the most accurate play-by-play sportscaster around — he once described a high school running back as crossing the "40-yard line, the 50, the 55, the 60" — but it would have been hard to find anybody more exciting.
"I suppose Eddie might have got locked in waiting for walks too much," said Bob Wolff, who broadcast the Senators' games for most of Yost's career, "but he saw his primary job as simply getting on base.
"Nat was very clever, and what he did was unique," Wolff said Tuesday. "All of his sound effects and other techniques were very well done."
HELLER: Nat Allbright didn't invent baseball; he re-created it →
