From Terry Pluto's The Curse of Rocky Colavito on Mudcat's broadcasting career:
"Mudcat loved the game and got very excited when the Indians did something," said [Nev] Chandler. "When George Hendrick or Charlie Spikes hit a home run, Mudcat would just scream 'Yeeaah!' into the microphone. He had a fishing net that he used to scoop up foul balls that hit the screen and bounced near the broadcast booth."
What made Grant famous—or infamous—was that he loved to read his mail on the air. Mudcat assassinated the names of Cleveland suburbs. Massillon was pronounced mas-silly-on; Fostoria was Fost-tor-ree-a.
Chandler recalled, "The moment I'll never forget is when Harry Jones said to Mudcat, 'Why don't you dig into the mailbag and see what we have?'
"Mudcat came up with a letter and said on the air, 'We have this letter here from Mas-silly-on. Harry, it from the two sisters, the Cunt sisters.'
"Harry said, 'Mud, I think that's the Kuntz sisters. The Kuntz sisters from Massillon.'
"Mudcat said, 'Well, maybe you be right. Well, anyway, these two Cunts be writing us, and they say...'
"Harry Jones just sat there, speechless, knowing Mudcat was talking about cunts on television. Mudcat didn't mean it. It was just his southern accent. But Harry was stunned. Finally, he just decided to go on with the game and pretend it never happened."
Grant was on the air from 1973 to 1977. He was let go when the local TV station hired a new manager who wanted to bring in his own announcer. He then worked for a few years for the Indians in the community relations department, making appearances and speeches for the team. In the 1980s he moved to Los Angeles.
"A lot of people made fun of Mudcat's grammar and how he butchered names," said Joe Tait, "but I heard his work and liked it. I thought he could have been another Dizzy Dean. The average fan related to Mudcat, but he never worked with a strong partner. Harry Jones was a very nice man, but he had no idea how to use Mudcat, to play to his strengths, which were his knowledge of the game and his personality. It's too bad that Mudcat could not have gotten another crack at broadcasting. I know that I would have enjoyed working with him. He would have been better than some of the guys I worked with on TV in the 1980s."