BY SCOTT LAUBERSo, we've heard so much over the past few days about how it will be impossible to replace Harry Kalas. Well, I spoke yesterday with someone who actually had that task. Hank Greenwald was the play-by-play broadcaster for the San Francisco Giants for many years. But in 1965, he took over for Kalas as the voice of the Hawaii Islanders of the triple-A Pacific Coast League.
"I quickly realized that Harry left a pair of shoes that couldn't ever be filled," Greenwald told me by phone. "He had ingratiated himself with the community, and he was sorely missed. He was a tough act, an impossible act, to follow."
In case you missed it, here's more from Greenwald in the News Journal's Sunday MLB notes. Also, here's our story in today's paper about yesterday's memorial service.
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READER POLL: For the past two games, the Phillies have played a video of Kalas singing his favorite ditty, "High Hopes," during the seventh-inning stretch. So, what do you think? Should "High Hopes" become the new tradition at Citizens Bank Park?
