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Bob Sheppard
Bob Sheppard, “The Voice of Yankee Stadium,” died on Sunday morning at his home in Baldwin at the age of 99. Mr. Sheppard’s announcing career began in the late 1940s when he was discovered while announcing a charity football game at Freeport Municipal Stadium. An executive for the Brooklyn Dodgers football team heard Mr. Sheppard’s voice in Freeport and hired him to announce football games at Ebbets Field. He was later hired by the New York Yankees football team. In 1950, the New York Yankees baseball team offered him an announcing job at Yankee Stadium. Mr. Sheppard announced approximately 4,500 games for the Yankees. In 2000, Mr. Sheppard received a plaque which was placed in Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park. He retired from the Yankees in 2007. Mr. Sheppard’s funeral will take place at St. Christopher’s Church in Baldwin on Thursday, July 15, at 10:45 a.m.
