Bob Sheppard passes away at 99

Yankees public address announcer for more than 50 years, Bob Sheppard, is deceased at his home in Baldwin, New York, reported the Associated Press this morning. Dubbed "announced the voice of God" by Reggie Jackson, Shephard over 4,500 games, including 22 world championships. Long known for his introductions to the stadium ("Good evening, ladies and gentlemen ... ... and hello to you at Yankee Stadium), and the anthem and the Yankee captain Derek Jeter, Sheppard was in October 100. I was battling the disease since 2008 and officially announced his retirement in November. Besides his career as a broadcaster floors Yankees' public address, and was a poet and former presenter of Sheppard and years played New York Giants in the Meadowlands.
Many Yankee fans of a certain age, and was the only constant Sheppard at Yankee Stadium. And Sheppard in good times and bad, by the end of the royal collections and elsewhere, and the world championship, are always there. He began his career in the Bronx in 1951 when Joe DiMaggio patrolling the middle of the field is still a child and a young man from Oklahoma named Mickey Mantle made his debut for the Big League. And the work of almost every game until September 2007 when he was sidelined with a wave of pulmonary infection that weakened his left hand.
Sheppard never return to Yankee Stadium after 2007, but did not feel that his presence at Yankee Stadium, the new and old. He appeared in a video greeting Hooray old stadium during the last in September of 2008, Derek Jeter has come to BAT for the pre-recorded announcement Sheppard of the city "Numbah two Jetah Derek."
In 2000 Shepard was honored with the Yankees on the same day on the playground and painting in the garden of the building. Read the famous newscaster Walter Cronkite inscription: "The voice of Yankee Stadium. In the past half century, is delighted generations of fans with his trademark greeting," Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Yankee Stadium. "
Sheppard also said New York Giants games from 1956-2006, and lent his voice to the St. John's University. He was 99 and forever be remembered as the voice of the Yankees.