Dick Schaap

[typewriter] Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to another podcast of Breslin, What's Doing? You know, my father always said, "Let's reminisce about tomorrow." But we're gonna talk about a great man today, Dick Schaap.

My father said Schaap was a friend behind your back.

We grew up, all we ever heard was, "Schaap, Schaap, Schaap."

[laughs]

And I knew that Schaap must have been important and he must have been good because my father was very selfish when it came to talking about other writers or even associating with too many people.

But Dick Schaap was one of a kind in our family.

We're here today with Jeremy Schaap.

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Now, from ABC News in New York, Dick Schaap.

Good evening.

It will be the Montreal Expos against the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League Championship Steve Rogers led the Expos to their victory with his bat, driving in the first two runs, and with his pitching, shutting out the Phillies on a six-hitter.

Partially because they didn't have a broadcasting degree.

Although Dick Schaap did okay after going to Cornell.

And the problem with these kind of cases, and we went through this when the Rolling Stone rape on campus story came out.

was that because they're celebrity and salacious, they damage actual rape and sexual assault victims' attempts to get justice.

nineWell, just as we took air, we had a package dropped on the broadcasting desk here, and it's a package that contained a book by Tom Seaver.

It's called The Perfect Game: Tom Seaver and the Mets by Tom Seaver with Dick Schaap.

And, uh, on the cover, a good-looking picture of Tom Seaver as he completes his follow-through on a pitch.

And right now, as he gets set to go, here for the play-by-play, Bob Murphy.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, we were on with the great Dick Schaap.

We were on Bill Roden.

We loved being on ESPN in that way.

That's the point, is it's so entertaining.

And Jeremy Schaap, Dick Schaap's son, told me that he...

You know how many games Jeremy Schaap has been to at Yankee Stadium, hundreds and hundreds.

He said when he went to see the Bananas there at Yankee Stadium with his daughter, he said, "I've never seen that place as electric as it was as when the Savannah Bananas showed up." [upbeat music]

You know, you usually had to connect somewhere.

But the likes of Dick Schaap and Red Smith would would come out to Green Bay and popularize.

So you had a Midwestern team that was beloved by New York that had that that boost that amplification from the new york media

you know it's funny you when we were putting this together that was you you you brought this up and it was an aha moment for me and it made me think huh if vince lombardi is from i don't know tuscaloosa Are the Green Bay Packers still a franchise in today's mind? Do they survive? Are they forced to move to Milwaukee? Do they never have the success that they should have? It's a fascinating sliding doors in the importance of Lombardi's New York roots.