He did it his way

If you're a regular reader of some of the blogs listed on the right (as any baseball fan in their right mind ought to be...) then it won't have escaped your notice that the world of baseball broadcasting (and Mets broadcasting, specifically) lost one of its best-loved voices this week, as Bob Murphy passed away at the age of 79. The Raindrops brings together a good selection of links to different tributes to Murphy.

However, it's The Eddie Kranepool Society that has my favourite link: a WFAN audio tribute, where some of Murphy's best-known calls are spliced in with audio clips of another instantly recognisable voice, that of Francis Albert Sinatra. This is the kind of thing you need to tuck away until those long cold winter nights when baseball is still months away - one click on the link and you're back with the boys of summer...