Don’t Play For Tomorrow
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
ESPN Radio
3.7 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is baseball tonight, the podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, October 14, 2021, producing from his home |
| 0:18.3 | studio in the foothills of Connecticut, his Taylor Schwenk, I'm Buster only working |
| 0:21.7 | for my home in New York. |
| 0:24.1 | And today will be better than yesterday. |
| 0:26.3 | We got really sad news last night about longtime catcher and broadcaster Ray Fossy, of |
| 0:32.4 | course so connected with the Oakland Athletics franchise. |
| 0:36.6 | Here's the news breaking on ABC7, Larry Beale. |
| 0:39.8 | Good evening everybody, huge loss for the Oakland Athletics family, longtime player and |
| 0:44.9 | broadcaster, Ray Fossy passed away today. |
| 0:47.6 | Fossy had been battling cancer for years. |
| 0:49.6 | That is something that very few people knew. |
| 0:51.7 | Fossy was a rugged man behind the plate spent 12 years in the majors, 1967 to 79 at two |
| 0:57.6 | time, all star one two world series titles with the A's in 73 and that home run is from |
| 1:02.8 | 1974. |
| 1:03.8 | Fossy made the transition from player to broadcaster on the air for 35 years in radio and TV, |
| 1:09.7 | stepped away from the booth in the middle of this past season, revealing he had been battling |
| 1:13.2 | cancer for 16 years. |
| 1:15.5 | Ray Fossy was 74 years old. |
| 1:18.0 | That is a huge loss. |
| 1:19.2 | I knew Ray Fossy a little bit, you know, chatted with him a little bit, but I didn't know him |
| 1:23.7 | as well as folks like Mark Mulder who was on social media last night. |
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