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Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16 ... where he teamed first with Buddy Blattner then with Pee Wee Reese. As a broadcaster, Dean was famous for his wit and his often ...
In the rest of the United States, 3 in 4 TV sets in use watched Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner call the games for ABC. In 1955, CBS took over the Saturday broadcasts, adding Sunday telecasts in 1957. Dean and Blattner continued to call the games for CBS, with Pee Wee Reese replacing Blattner in 1960.
Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese (July 23, 1918 – August 14, 1999) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. [ 1 ]
Dizzy Dean: Pee Wee Reese: NBC: Bob Wolff: Joe Garagiola: 1962: CBS: Dizzy Dean Gene Kirby: Pee Wee Reese: NBC: Bob Wolff [77] Joe Garagiola: 1961: CBS: Dizzy Dean Russ Meyer: Pee Wee Reese Frankie Frisch: NBC: Lindsey Nelson: Joe Garagiola: 1960: ABC [78] Jack Buck [79] Carl Erskine [80] [81] CBS: Dizzy Dean Jack Whitaker Bob Finnegan Pee Wee ...
Pee Wee Reese [12] replaced Blattner as Dean's partner in 1960. That year, Jerry Coleman hosted the pregame show for CBS' Game of the Week broadcasts. A rather embarrassing incident for Coleman occurred when he was interviewing Cookie Lavagetto when the "Star-Spangled Banner" started. Coleman later said, "Believe me, when the Anthem starts, I ...
By 1964, [30] CBS' Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese called games from Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Baltimore. New York got a US$550,000 payment of CBS' $895,000. New York got a US$550,000 payment of CBS' $895,000.
By 1955 [18] Dizzy Dean [19] and the Game of the Week would move from ABC to CBS [20] (the rights were actually set up through the Falstaff Brewing Corporation [21] [22] [23]). "CBS' stakes were higher" said Buddy Blattner, who left the Mutual Broadcasting System to rejoin Dean. Ron Powers wrote about the reteaming of Dean and Blattner, "they ...
Pee Wee Reese said "Curt Gowdy was its guy (1966–75), and didn't want Dizzy Dean [48] – too overpowering. Curt was nice, but worried about mistakes. Diz and I just laughed." Falstaff Brewery hyped Dean as Gowdy in return said "I said, 'I can't do "Wabash Cannonball." Our styles clash --" then came Pee Wee Reese.