Hawk Harrelson, the man, the myth, the legend. He gone from the booth from the last time today, but he’ll never be gone from the hearts of White Sox fans.
Red Sox, too.
Played RF after Tony C got hit in eye
I remember
Growing up listening to Harry Caray call Cubs games, I thought that he was the ultimate “homer,” openly rooting for the home team with almost no attempt at impartiality. But then WGN started broadcasting White Sox games with Hawk Harrelson doing the play-by-play ... goodness gracious. The Hawk made Harry sound like an uninterested observer.
I hear the Hawk do the Cubs-White Sox game on Saturday, and he was thanking all of the members of the crew. I had no idea that it was his penultimate broadcast. I wish him well in his new career as an “ambassador” for the White Sox (he wants to do it at least until 2020 in order to be involved in organized baseball in eight different decades, something accomplished only by Connie Mack and a handful of others), and hope that he returns to the booth from time to time.
But, for the record, Harrelson is only the third greatest Hawk in Chicago, after (i) the Wind and (ii) Andre Dawson from 1987-1992.