Tom Verducci: Fulfilling the request of the man who gave voice to Yankee Stadium

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Bob Sheppard gave voice to a building. He transformed all that concrete and steel of Yankee Stadium into a trusted old friend because, well, that voice was reliable, it was unhurried and it was always there. Players came and went, seasons dawned and set, but the one constant for 56 years, as fathers brought their sons in the same way their fathers brought them, was that because of Bob Sheppard Yankee Stadium sounded eloquent, refined and, truth be told, even godly.

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