Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Allen was arguably the most prominent member of his profession, his voice familiar to millions. In his later years, he gained a second professional life as the first host of "This Week in Baseball". Wikipedia
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One of the first great American sportscasters, Mel Allen was the "Voice of the New York Yankees" baseball team, from 1939 to 1964. www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Allen.html
MEL ALLEN Born on February 14, 1913, in Birmingham, Alabama, Mel Allen loved the game of baseball even as a boy, and this affection for the sport led him to be first a sports columnist and then a broadcaster. www.radiohof.org/sportscasters/melallen.html
Mel Allen Mel Allen is as much a part of the national pastime as the squeeze play, hot dogs, and pennants flapping in the breeze. www.ccom.ua.edu/dean/chf/allen.html
Mel Allen, the passionate Alabaman who became the voice of the Yankees, dies at age 83 at his home in Greenwich, Conn. Allen, who had open heart surgery seven years ago, had been ill for the past year. espn.go.com/classic/s/moment010616_mel_allen.html
