One year we won thirty-nine games in the seventh, eighth and ninth. He had to get riled up. He was magnificent in what he did and how he did it. And he could talk forever. The articulate and enthusiastic Mel Allen brought the game to millions in a cultivated, resonant voice.
We thought he used to root more than anybody. Red Barber did less rooting. Mel was strictly a homer, but he was a truly fine announcer. They left people to believe whatever they wanted — and people believed the worst. Pained, angered, confused, Mel Allen moved into the shadows for a time, disappeared from public view and consciousness.
It was George Steinbrenner who is generally credited with bringing him back into the Yankee family, hiring Allen to do games on cable TV and emcee special events at Yankee Stadium. After the return, Mel came back the Stadium to do the play by play on field for most all of the Old Timers Day games for next two decades. In , Allen entered the U. He got the chance to call a few more Crimson Tide football games as well. While in the army, he officially changed his name to Mel Allen.
After returning to civilian life in , Allen resumed baseball announcing doing home and road games for the Yankees, providing national coverage for 15 of the next 18 World Series as well as calling 24 All-Star Games. In he broadcast the first nationally televised World Series and made the difficult transition to TV, where he was sometimes criticized, like many with a radio background, for talking too much during the games.
Allen was also familiar to audiences for his Movietone newsreels for Fox, his numerous boxing bouts, and also for his work on college football bowl games: 14 Rose Bowl, 2 Orange Bowls, and 2 Sugar Bowls. Allen continued to broadcast Yankee games until , when he was fired by Don Topping at the end of the season. Allen worked that season broadcasting Milwaukee Braves games in their future home of Atlanta. He spent some time doing piecework, including football games for the University of Miami, and tending to his other business interest, a Canada Dry ginger ale distributor.
Then in he moved to Cleveland to announce for the Indians, a tenure during which he shocked the audience by reciting Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" in full during a particularly boring night with the hapless Indians.
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