1969 New York Yankees Broadcasters

"The sportswriters who keep you posted on your Yankees, the photographers who preserve the action you might have missed, the radio and TV announcers who make possible the next best thing to being there- they'll all great pros and they're ready to bring you another exciting season with the Yankees.
The New York Yankees are the subject of penetrating and thorough coverage by all communications media. Both wire services, national magazines, and regional and local newspapers cover the Yankees during spring training and throughout the baseball season. The broadcast media is fully represented and regional radio and television stations as well as by the networks. The outstanding sports and news photographers also regular follow the Yankees at home and away."

-The New York Yankees Official 1969 Yearbook

RADIO AND TELEVISION COVERAGE
Jerry Coleman
Whitey Ford
Frank Messer
Phil Rizzuto
Sandy Alper (engineer for Yankee broadcasts over WHN and the stations of the Home of Champions Radio Network)

-The New York Yankees Official 1969 Yearbook

PHIL RIZZUTO (WPIX, WHN)
The all-time Yankee shortstop has been covering the club on radio and television since 1957.  Playing for the Yankees from 1941-56, with three years of military service in World War II, Phil was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1950.


JERRY COLEMAN (WPIX, WHN)
Jerry Coleman begins his seventh year as part of the Yankee broadcast team. The Associated Press Rookie of the Year in 1949, Jerry made the All-Star team in 1950 and won the Babe Ruth Award in that year's World Series. He was a Marine Corps fighter pilot in both World War II and the Korean War.


FRANK MESSER (WPIX, WHN)
Frank Messer returns for his second year covering Yankee games. He was a welcome addition to the broadcast team after four years in Baltimore covering both the Orioles and Colts. Regarded by baseball insiders as one of the true pros of the broadcast business, this affable North Carolina native won over legions of New York baseball fans.


WHITEY FORD (WPIX)
Whitey Ford, the greatest pitcher in Yankee history, joins the Yankee broadcast team this year. Winner of more World Series games than any other pitcher to have stepped on a mound in the Fall Classic, his color commentary will be greatly appreciated by baseball-loving New Yorkers.


NEWSPAPER COVERAGE
Ed Hershey (Newsday)
Bob Kurland (Bergen Evening Record)
Hank O'Donnell (sports editor, Waterbury, Conn. American-Republican)
Jim Ogle (Newark Star-Ledger)
Joe Trimble (New York News)
George Vecsey (New York Times)
Vic Ziegel (New York Post)

-The New York Yankees Official 1969 Yearbook