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billonthefarm

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Just saw on espn that cubs legend Ron Santo has passed away. All of those days listening to ronny on the radio in the tractor as he would live and die with the cubbies were so enjoyable. Some of his calls are absolutely legendary. Then when things got a little slow or depressing he could bring some levity with a goofy story. You could feel his excitment and pain every day in every at bat every out of every game. No one has been a better ambassador of his team. Not to mention his devotion to the fight agains juvenile diabetes. So many good things could be said about #10 but words fail to really present the man as he was. It is a sad day for the land of cubbie blue.
Ron Santo,#10, you will be missed.
bill
 
A tear from me as well. As a Northern Indiana born young man I was certainly filled with Memories: Jack Brickhouse, Ernie Banks and the whole shebang. Jim
 
Must be the year for losing sports casters in baseball. Dave Niehaus, the voice of the Seattle Mariners, dies last month also.
You really get attached to radio voice personalities...
 
I grew up in Gary, Indiana and I remember Jack Brickhouse, Ernie Banks,etc . My dad was diehard Cub"s fan!
 
Listening to the cubs was always one of my favorite parts of being in the tractor. Pat and Ron were the best radio duo I had ever listened to
 
My fav was Dizzy Dean. "he had a riffle on that pitch". And a lousy rendition of the Wabash Cannonball.

Gordo
 
Jim Hickman lives about 20 mins from my house in Henning Tennessee. All of those guys were my heros back in the day,,,See Ya Ron!!
 
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