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	National Baseball Hall of Fame - 1980 Frick Award Winner Russ Hodges
		Russ Hodges, the "Voice of the Giants" for 22 years, was the 1980 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.
		Hodges, who passed away in 1971 at the age of 60, held a law degree from the University of Kentucky, his home state.
		Hodges boasted of the fact that he had seen all but two of the 633 home runs hit by Willie Mays during the announcer's lifetime.
	baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/frick_bios/hodges_russ.htm (225 words)

	Russ Hodges - BR Bullpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russell Patrick Hodges (June 18, 1910 in Dayton, Tennessee - April 18, 1971 at San Francisco, California) was an American broadcaster who did play-by-play for several teams, most notably the New York and San Francisco Giants.
		On October 3, 1951, Hodges was at the microphone for Bobby Thomson's famous Shot Heard 'Round the World.
		Hodges died suddenly of a heart attack in 1971.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Russ_Hodges (200 words)

	ESPN Classic - Shot heard 'round the world
		Russ is shouting himself right out of his sore throat, out of every malady and pathology and complaint and all the pangs of growing up and every memory that is not tender.
		Russ is still shouting, he is not yet shouted out, he believes he has a thing that's worth repeating.
		Russ is still manning the microphone and has one last thing to say and barely manages to get it out.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/2001/0925/1255241.html (1717 words)

	560/KSFO - Giants vs. Cubs - June 5, 1970
		Up in the Wrigley broadcast booth for the visitors are a pair of Hall of Fame voices, Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, who have been partners at the mike since the team moved west from Manhattan in 1958.
		The Giants win the pennant!" as Bobby Thomson homered to defeat the Dodgers in a playoff to determine the National League champion in 1951, Hodges was honored with the Ford C. Frick Award (symbolizing enshrinement in the broadcasters' wing on the Hall) in 1980.
		Hodges' longtime play-by-play partner, Lon Simmons, was an all-around sports star at Burbank High School before attending USC on an athletic scholarship.
	www.bayarearadio.org /sports/ksfo_giants-cubs_june-5-1970.shtml (861 words)

	ESPN Classic - Giants fans weren't the only ones "going crazy"
		Hodges was the hometown Giants broadcaster, which helps explain why he went so nuts.
		Hodges may not have used lots of details to describe what was happening after the shot -- how Thomson was being mobbed as he rounded the bases -- but the good way in which Hodges completely lost it accurately described the overwhelming emotion felt by every Giants fan in the stadium.
		Hodges call is among the top three of all time.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/soup.html (803 words)

	Russ Hodges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Dayton, Tennessee, Hodges began his career in 1929.
		However, in his autobiography, Hodges related how a Brooklyn fan, excited over what appeared to be a certain Dodger victory, hooked up his home tape recorder to his radio.
		Hodges died suddenly of a heart attack in Mill Valley, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russ_Hodges (437 words)

	TellItGoodbye.com : Bill Thompson Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During an exhibition game in spring training in Fresno in 1965, Simmons and his KSFO partner Russ Hodges had Thompson call a couple of innings during a trial run.
		But Hodges, a Ford C. Frick award winner in 1980 with a reputation for being a generous person, gave up one of his innings -- the sixth -- to Thompson later in the season.
		After Hodges retired, Thompson became the station's No. 2 broadcaster and would move to No. 1 when Simmons was off covering San Francisco 49ers games.
	www.uncas.net /simmons/thompson.shtml (718 words)

	Russ Hodges - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russell Patrick Hodges (June 18, 1910 at Dayton, Tennessee - April 18, 1971 at San Francisco, California) was an American broadcaster who did play-by-play for several baseball teams, most notably the New York and San Francisco Giants.
		However, in his autobigoraphy, Hodges related how a Brooklyn fan, excited over what appeared to be a certain Dodger victory, hooked up his home tape recorder to his radio.
		The fan wanted to capture Hodges "crying." Instead, he recorded history; the next day, he called Hodges and said, "You have to have this tape."
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Russ_Hodges (390 words)

	dallasobserver.com - News - Full circle
		Between them, Hodges and Mand have restored the award-winning modern interior, which they've brought it into the '90s with a healthy respect for that originally created by the late designer Tonny Foy.
		Creme brulee--which Hodges should know how to make after his stint at the Crescent--had a crisp, bitter sugar top heaped with berries heated to a shrivel, the blueberries particularly nice with the thick, creamy custard.
		Hodges, when he's let loose to do what he believes in, has a clear sense of American cooking and eating: The heartiness and the underlying simplicity are not too cluttered with tricky technique and obscure ingredients.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1996-01-18/dish_full.html (1404 words)

	Dodgers/Giants Game 3 - Baseball Fever
		Speaking of myths, lets put to rest the one that says Russ Hodges made the "call of the century" with his "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant" drivel.
		Hodges, the living example of having "history thrust upon you" was a mundane announcer at his best.
		Your explanation--that Dodger fans were listening to Hodges only to taunt or to celebrate--illustrates the kind of simplistic and misguided reasoning that one associates with Giant fans.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=3442 (3158 words)

	The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions (#200)
		Johnny Hodges is certainly one of the premier stylists in history.
		Throughout the set, Hodges, Webster, Roy Eldridge, Nance, Brown and Billy Strayhorn are the principal voices.
		Always unique, always original, Hodges and friends demonstrate the idea of good small group swing, with an emphasis on the value of notes instead of the number of notes.
	www.mosaicrecords.com /prodinfo.asp?number=200-MD-CD (1784 words)

	USATODAY.com - Giants stole the pennant? Perhaps not (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the more significant things we learned during the past offseason was that legendary broadcaster Russ Hodges didn't quite have it right with his famous call of Bobby Thomson's 1951 playoff home run.
		Russ of the Giants has a less gaudy 2.16 ERA, but the fact that he has 16 strikeouts and one walk in 16 innings suggests he's building off the improved command he was showing during the second half of last season.
		In case you think it might be in the name, the four batting Ortiz's — American Leaguers David, Hector, Jose and Nick — are hitting a nondescript.271 as a group.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/bbw/2001-03-21/2001-03-21-leadingoff.htm (1151 words)

	Agni Literary Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He imagines Hodges' thoughts: "Isn't it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent lead-ers...The mapped visions that pierce our dreams?" The skin is important; DeLillo has always weighed ideas in relation to tangibles.
		Cut to the radio booth, zero in on Russ Hodges, his jowls, his expert presentiments: "something big's in the works, something's building." Cut to the field, the choreography of the players: Thomson, Lockman, Pafko, Cox, Robinson, Mays.
		Russ Hodges is going nuts in the radio booth, a changed man. There is a feeding frenzy in section 35.
	webdelsol.com /AGNI/asp98-gm.htm (2973 words)

	Russ Hodges - movies and more at most-wanted-movies.com. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russ Hodges, age 96, was born on June 18, 1910.
		Russ Hodges's Zodiac Sign is Gemini and Russ Hodges's birthday falls under the Year of the Dog.
		Copyright for the movies starring RUSS HODGES are held by their respective owners.
	www.most-wanted-movies.com.cob-web.org:8888 /star/Russ-Hodges.aspx (147 words)

	Ernie Harwell Hall of Fame Induction Day Speech
		Ole' Russ is going to be stuck on the radio, there were five radio broadcasts and I was gonna' be on coast to coast TV and I thought that I had the plum assignment.
		Russ Hodges' record became the most famous sports broadcast of all time, television, no instant replay, no recordings in those days, and only Mrs.
		And he was on television when Bobby Thomson hit the home run and that was the first telecast that went coast to coast, if I remember correctly.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /hof/Ernie_Harwell_HOF_Induction.shtml (1654 words)

	Cigar Aficionado \| People Profile \| Sportscasters
		Russ Hodges--an equal opportunity smoker of Phillies, Admirations, El Productos and most anything else he came upon--broadcast the Giants from 1949 until his death in 1971.
		Russ Hodges' raspy voice, rising in volume as it competed with 34,320 clamoring fans, told us the rest.
		Hodges' call--with its crazed, raw emotion--would never have been as superb were he describing an event we could already see.
	www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,114,00.html (4679 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
		The late Russ Hodges, another Giants announcer, made one of the most significant play-by-play calls in baseball history.
		Hodges was in the booth for the New York Giants in 1951 when Bobby Thomson hit his famous "shot heard 'round the world" homer at the Polo Grounds to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers for the National League pennant.
		Hodges' call, "The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant," may be the most replayed in baseball play-by-play history.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060528&content_id=1477437&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (501 words)

	Russ' Tool Shed - Russ Fustino's WebLog
		Russ wisely shelved dreams of rock and roll stardom in order to share his vast knowledge with developers nationwide.
		Russ has more than 25 years of software development experience and reportedly passed all three MCAD exams in a 28-hour period – an experience he doesn’t recommend to anyone.
		He’s the creator of the Russ' Tool Shed developer seminar series and has donned his trademark suspenders, hardhat and tool belt in presentations for over 50,000 developers at 1,300 events.
	www.russtoolshed.net (1435 words)

	Over 60
		Russ Hodges and Ernie Harwell were the Giant announcers on WMCA (570 on your dial).
		Ralph Branca was brought in to pitch for the Dodgers.
		Thompson lifted a lazy fly to left that caught an extension and as Russ Hodges repeated, "The Giants win the Pennant.
	www.antonnews.com /syossetjerichotribune/2000/10/06/opinion (467 words)

	KNBR congratulates Lon Simmons
		As one of those "Baby Boomers" who grew up here in the 1960s, the friendly voices of Lon Simmons and his good friend and broadcasting partner Russ Hodges were important background sounds during the summers of my youth.
		Like Hodges, who had started his broadcasting career as a disc jockey for "hillbilly" radio stations in his native Kentucky, Simmons also cut his teeth in the small backwater towns.
		Simmons actually choked up when a curtain was pulled away revealing his and Hodges' names on large discs that were later placed alongside the names and numbers of other Giants' Hall of Famers at the ballpark.
	www.knbr.com /giants/lonSimmons2.html (615 words)

	Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1949 he was hired by the Giants and followed the team west when they moved to San Francisco.
		Hodges is responsible for one of the most memorable home run calls in baseball history.
		Simmons worked with Russ Hodges for 13 years before briefly retiring in 1973.
	www.thesoundofbaseball.com /Hall_of_Fame.html (1954 words)

	Bobby Thomson's Famous Homer Lives On \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Veteran New York Giant announcer Russ Hodges described the moment to millions mesmerized at their radios that October afternoon:
		the Giants win the pennant!" Hodges screamed the words at the top of his voice, all semblance of journalistic objectivity gone.
		Hodges bellowed it out eight times - and then overcome by the moment and voiceless, he had to yield the microphone.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/Frommer_Harvey4.stm (706 words)

	Boxing on TV
		Russ Hodges was the first CBS announcer for bouts originating from White Plains, New York, and St. Nicholas Arena.
		Husing remained for roughly 16 months; Hodges returned in the summer of 1951, when the title was changed to Blue Ribbon Bouts; and Jack Drees arrived in 1954.
		ABC also picked up the CBS Blue Ribbon Bouts when it was canceled and renamed it The Wednesday Night Fights, Russ Hodges and Jack Drees both stayed with the show, but Hodges left in October and Drees was the only regular announcer for the five years it stayed on ABC.
	www.skypoint.com /members/schutz19/boxing.htm (999 words)

	San Francisco Giants News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simmons, known for his humility as much as his baritone voice and wit, steered clear of campaigning for the balloting and has a hard time accepting that he's being considered among the greats in his field now.
		Hodges, who came with the Giants to San Francisco from New York, became a great friend and mentor to Simmons as soon as he began broadcasting San Francisco Giants games.
		Hodges, who died in 1971, was the fourth Frick Award winner in 1980.
	sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/sf/news/sf_news.jsp?ymd=20031212&content_id=616383&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sfn (810 words)

	dallasobserver.com - Restaurants - Full circle
		The name is Americana, but Chef Russ Hodges is home again on Routh Street
		So here is Hodges, come full circle, ensconced again in the kitchen of the house that Stephan Pyles built.
		The restaurant is called Americana, and Hodges says he's picking up where he left off at J Pinnell's, only doing it better.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1996-01-18/dining/dish_1.html (851 words)

	Russ Hodges \| BaseballLibrary.com
		When Bobby Thomson stunned the Dodgers with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" to win the 1951 NL playoff series, Russ Hodges delivered what has become the most famous call in ML history, repeatedly crying "The Giants win the pennant!
		Raised in Kentucky, Hodges broadcast for the White Sox, Cubs, Reds, Senators, and Yankees before settling for two decades as the voice of the Giants.
		He would salute each Giants home run with his trademark "Bye, bye baby!" and was heard on New York's WMCA and San Francisco's KSFO until his sudden death of a heart attack in 1971.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/H/Hodges_Russ.stm (137 words)

	TIDE mentor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russ helped develop a 3-credit hour course here at Texas State University in applied learning and cognition called Effective Learning for students seeking academic support.
		Russ is currently past-president of CRLA, was president of the Texas Chapter of the College Reading and Learning Association in 1996, and is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences.
		Russ has authored several articles in national journals, was a recipient of the CRLA national scholarship award, and recently published Academic transformation: The road to college success through Prentice-Hall.
	www.ci.txstate.edu /TIDE/Mentors.htm (429 words)

	baseball cards
		Russ Hodges' radio call of "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
		Thomson's homer capped an incredible comeback season for the Giants, who had trailed the Dodgers by 13 1/2 games on August 11.
		Mueller's hit normally would have been fielded by Gil Hodges for a double play, but Hodges was holding Dark at first.
	www.thebackstop.net /blogtrivia/russhodgesradiocalloftheshotheardroundtheworld.html (979 words)

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