 | oscargamblesfro (76)
04/08/2008 | Basically a regular guy with enormous Elton John at his commercial peak glasses who was really just a big fan who sort of got to sit in the seats at a great park and get hammered, mess up names, sing, and kinda run the show... Objectively, he was far from a smooth announcer, and in today's world, well, they almost hunt down eccentrics and characters- they almost wouldn't let him be an usher now but is now part of the game's legends...
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
04/08/2008 | I loved Harry. I watched hundreds of games on WGN and many at Wrigley. He and Steve Stone were a special pair in the 1980's, at least.
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 | CanadaSucks (45)
04/08/2008 | I just loved it when he got so drunk he couldn't remember player names. By letter of the law, yes- the stumbling drunk was not an accomplished or polished baseball announcer. Harry was the drunk-uncle you would watch a game with while sneaking your first sips of beer. . .that (not his baseball acumen) was his draw.
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 | irishgit (138)
04/08/2008 | Legend aside, he was pretty bad.
Even when he was younger and less deeply imbedded in the bottle, he tended to drift off into nonsense, and had way too much trouble pronoucing simple English.
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