When McCarver passed away this week, it wasn’t just an accomplished ballplayer or a famous announcer we mourned, it was someone who most of us never met who had somehow become a good friend because…
Sports isn’t the only place where trusted, familiar voices make a difference in our world. I remember an endless string of weekends in the ’70s and ’80s, listening to Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40,” wondering if REO Speedwagon was ever going to supplant Kim Carnes at No. 1.
, it wasn’t just an accomplished ballplayer or a famous announcer we mourned, it was someone who most of us never met who had somehow become a good friend because we’d watched so many baseball games together.I did have the great fortune of knowing McCarver, long after I’d listened to McCarver, long after I’d received the equivalent of a postgraduate baseball degree by listening to him call so many baseball games for so many years.
Such was McCarver’s appeal that when he finally was forced out of the Mets’ booth — taking his microphone to The Bronx for a few years — even the formidable presence of Tom Seaver, his replacement, couldn’t assuage angry viewers. It was like losing your seatmate at the ballpark. It wasn’t ever the same.
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