"Diz never announced. He just sort of talked the game. That's the way he was on television, on radio before. You felt you were around a potbellied stove and he was speaking to you. He was funny, warm. He didn't let you listen or watch; he made you."
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, as quoted in America's Dizzy Dean (1978) by Curt Smith, p. 118
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