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He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–1956), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. A popular figure on a team dynasty that captured 10 AL titles and seven World Championships in his 13 seasons, Rizzuto holds numerous World Series records for shortstops.
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Aug 14, 2007 · Phil Rizzuto, the sure-handed Hall of Fame Yankees shortstop nicknamed The Scooter, who extended his Yankee life as a popular and even beloved broadcaster, punctuating his game-calling with ...
Aug 15, 2007 · Phil Rizzuto, the sure-handed Hall of Fame Yankees shortstop nicknamed the Scooter who extended his Yankee life as a popular, even beloved, broadcaster, punctuating his game calls with...
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The Yankees won the World Series each year from 1949-53, and Rizzuto was the starting shortstop in each season. He retired following the 1956 campaign with a batting average of .273, 1,588 hits, 149 stolen bases, 38 home runs, 563 RBI and five All-Star Game selections.
Aug 14, 2007 · Phil Rizzuto, the sure-handed Hall of Fame shortstop nicknamed The Scooter, who punctuated his extended Yankees life as a broadcaster with exclamations of "Holy cow!" died...
Aug 15, 2007 · On Phil Rizzuto Day at Yankee Stadium in 1985, the team gave him a fitting present: a cow wearing a halo. The cow knocked Rizzuto over and, of course, he shouted, "Holy cow!"
Phil Rizzuto Bio. Fullname: Philip Francis Rizzuto; Nickname: Scooter; Born: 9/25/1917 in Brooklyn, NY; High School: Richmond Hill, Queens, NY; Debut: 4/14/1941; Hall of Fame: 1994; Died: 8/13/2007
Apr 26, 2024 · Phil Rizzuto was an American professional baseball player and broadcaster who played and worked for the New York Yankees for over 50 years. The 5-foot 6-inch (1.68-metre), 150-pound Rizzuto was rejected by his hometown Brooklyn Dodgers because of his diminutive size but signed with the Yankees in.
Aug 14, 2007 · Phil Rizzuto, the Hall of Fame shortstop during the Yankees' dynasty years and beloved by a generation of fans for exclaiming "Holy cow!" as a broadcaster, died Tuesday. He was 89.
