The Last Red
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Let’s be honest, despite our nostalgia for Duke Snider, Ken Singleton was a much better analyst.
For me he was simply the voice of summer. There was something soothing and relaxing about spending an afternoon in the yard while listening to DVH.
Part of my childhood listening to him and Duke Snider. Van Horne was awesome. A real pro. You can see in the Dennis Martinez clip, he knew when to talk and he knew when not to. He had a perfect voice and demeanor for calling baseball games. His induction in the Hall of Fame was well deserved.
DVH and Dike Snyder were the absolute best.
There was that public pool just outside the right field fence. A few Expos and visiting players hit home runs that left Jarry Park and landed in that pool.
I scratched one off my easy to do list last summer and spent several hours cooling off in that very pool. I ended up striking up a conversation with a parent who was playing catch with her kid in the pool, using a foam ball. I noticed that she grew tired of playing so I offered to take over and she let me.
She told me her kid was playing in a league that held its games at Jarry. I’m looking to donate all my unused equipment to the baseball association that runs that league.
I also discovered the old backstop that my friends and I used to hold our pick up games. To my surprise, it had never been renovated. It’s as if time had stood still in that little diamond now overtaken by weeds and pigeons.
He of the dulcet tones brightened many a summer. How spoiled we’ve been in Montreal with so many amazing talents calling games from different sports.
Would love to read your memories. What a class act.
Tribute show on TSN690 today, with Kenny Singleton coming on at 6PM. Dave himself will be on Tuesday’s show and will be taking questions from fans.
Well-deserved, Dave. Thank-you for all you’ve done. Please be well.
He could have gone with "Duffy Dyer" instead.And yet, of all the players those legendary broadcasters drew your attention towards, you defied them all and chose one Sal Butera, a back up catcher as I recall, as your user name.