RIP Mike Shannon, and Some More Baseball Thoughts

As we continue to talk about reasons why we love baseball, here’s one that comes to mind: Your hometown baseball announcer doesn’t have to be quote-unquote “good” to be absolutely wonderful. I’ve written at length about my lifelong love of Herb Score as Cleveland’s baseball announcer. Herb, it’s fair to say, was not Vin Scully. Around town you’d often h…