"No team in all the world of sport gets the constant day-in, day-out coverage of the World Champion New York Yankees. Even in the off-season, Yankee activities are reported each day. The New York metropolitan press, syndicated columnists, the wire services, regional writers from rival cities .... all cover the Yankees in spring and throughout the season.
Yankee games are broadcast every day to a large network of eastern stations, and more than 130 games a year are televised to New York and to regional fans. The CBS 'Game of the Week' telecasts Yankee home weekend games almost every Saturday and Sunday.
Yes, millions of words a year are written and spoken about the Yankees, sports' most renowned organization."
-The New York Yankees Official 1962 Yearbook
WRITERS
Jimmy Cannon (New York Journal American)
Dan Daniel (New York World-Telegram and Sun)
John Drebinger (New York Times)
Charley Feeney (Long Island Star-Journal and Press)
Til Ferdenzi (New York Journal American)
Hy Goldberg (New York News)
Tommy Holmes (New York Herald Tribune)
Steve Jacobson (Newsday)
Len Koppett (New York Post)
Jim Ogle (Newark Star-Ledger)
Phil Pepe (New York World-Telegram and Sun)
Ken Smith (New York Mirror)
Joe Trimble (New York Daily News)
-The New York Yankees Official 1962 Yearbook
BROADCASTERS
"Baseball's most noted team of broadcasters are the three famed Yankee announcers: Mel Allen, Red Barber and Phil Rizzuto. WCBS, the New York outlet for the CBS network, serves as the basic station for the 102-station lineup in eastern cities. The games are also broadcast by WPIX-Channel 11.
Allen, known as the 'Voice of the Yankees,' is the dean of Yankee broadcasters, having aired Bomber games since the late 1930s. Barber has been a Yankee announcer since 1954 in a distinguished career dating back more than a quarter of a century. Rizzuto, the great Yankee shortstop, turned to broadcasting a few seasons back and has been winning friends ever since."
-The New York Yankees Official 1962 Yearbook
MEL ALLEN (WPIX, WCBS)
"Hello there, everybody, this is Mel Allen." That introduction is one of the most familiar in the world of sports.
Yankee fans always want to hear what Mel has to say- the Yankees making an inning-ending double play or some Pinstriped hero driving in the winning run in the ninth. The Voice of the Yankees is like an old friend- with a sad recollection of Lou Gehrig's final days as a Yankee or an awe-inspiring story of DiMaggio's hitting streak or one of Mantle's most towering home runs. Mel's on-air narration of a Yankee game is as much as part of the New York scene as the Empire State Building or a Broadway show.
RED BARBER (WPIX, WCBS)
Red Barber is a man who tells it like it is, no matter what.
In 1939, he broadcast the first major league game shown on television. The Ol' Redhead has also broadcast the NFL Championship Game, the Army-Navy Game and the Orange Bowl.
Hired by the Yankees away from Dodgers in 1954, the legendary broadcaster is known throughout baseball for his fairness. And when following a long fly ball, Red watches the outfielder, not the ball, and always makes the right call.
PHIL RIZZUTO (WPIX, WCBS)
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.
