RIP to one of the greatest of all time, who added to baseball's fame and fanbase.
His broadcasting career, of course, is way more controversial, but particularly because of his style and thinking in the Moneyball era, up until he went off the air in 2011. Was he like John Madden, who was legitimately a world-class broadcaster earlier on in his career, and just lost his proverbial fastball long before losing his job? Or was he pushed out there because of his playing-career fame and his status as like the dean of retired ballplayers, and given umpteen chances that people without his on-field resume never would have gotten? I wasn't paying enough attention back pre-2000 to know one way or the other.