Except this wasn't Max this time! Why, I don't know. He was the regular announcer at MR, and he was very good to listen to. But the guy making the call here sounds a lot like the same guy that called the races at Scioto Downs----I forget his name. This guy---whoever he is---was probably subbing for Max this day for some reason.
Right. I see that now. It was a familiar voice, but I couldn't place who. Definitely not Max Brewer, that's for sure. Dolan was really, really good---deserved a higher profile job for sure. Glance ordinary. A guy who obviously tried but just didn't have the right natural knack. Plus he had absolutely impossible shoes to fill! Gorman I didn't appreciate at the time, but I do now. I confess I still can't stand Roger Huston, despite all the good deeds he's done for harness racing. Maybe he's an acquired taste, but if so, it's sure taking its time! I once ran into Jack Lee at an OTB in the late 80's. It was equivalent as if I had run into the president of the United States----and actually a lot more, if you want to know the truth. And even though I'm kind of shy and definitely not the outgoing type and like to respect people's privacy, I actually made a kind of overture to him---and it worked! We hit it off with him pretty good for 20 minutes or so. He was with his wife. I got in good with him by imitating what I said was his best call of all time. It was a stroke of genius on my part---because it wasn't a race! And that absolutely intrigued the man. It was a fight introduction when he was the ring announcer for the Ali-Shavers fight in '77. And so I got him going, and asked him if he remembered. He came out with (in his inimitable Jack Lee cadence, and imitating himself), "The one! The only! Mohammed Ali!" He really got a kick out of it, because it wasn't racing, and I guess that's all he heard from fans. But then I told him no. I told him his best call was how he introduced Ernie Shavers. Now he was REALLY intrigued, because he couldn't remember! And so I did MY best Jack Lee imitation (imagine his voice the way it changes at the last instant as the winning horse crosses the wire): "Has caused more blackouts, than Con Edison!" Oh Jack. He loved it! He goes to his wife, "You hear that? Has caused more blackouts than Con Edision. Do you hear what the man just said?" He and his wife were very happy with me, and he forgot all about the rest of the customers and I had them all to myself for the next 20 minutes. And two or three times during those twenty minutes, I could hear him say to himself, smiling wistfully, "Has caused more blackouts than Con Edison." He was very proud of that phrase he invented, even though he didn't remember it. It was as though I gave him a long lost gift he thought he'd never see again.
I think Jerry Glantz was a very good race caller. He had 2 strikes against him right from the start when he took over full time for Jack Lee.I went to Monticello a lot and he was quite good & listening to him over the years has made me even appreciate him more. He has a very distinctive race caller voice. In my generation, it reminded me of Tom Tresh taking over in center-field for Mickey Mantle or Bobby Mercer being the next Mickey Mantle. No matter WHO was next it would never be enough to replace him.
I don't know. Glance just never whet my appetite for some reason. The feeling I got from him was that he was trying to sound like other announcers instead of just being himself. His voice was distinctive, to be sure, but his style was not. I suppose in the end it's just a matter of taste. It's hard to define. It just feels as though there was something missing there with him. Yes, Tresh and Murcer were real good players, but there is only one Mickey Mantle. And there forever will be only one Jack Lee.
Those of us who raced in the NYC market in the 1970's did not know how blessed we were with the race callers that manned the mikes there...Granted, i was a Jack E.Lee fan forever, but Marshall Cassidy, Jerry Glantz, and Jim Dolan were exceptionally talented...dolan was fairly unappreciated during his stint at Scioto Downs, but his style carried from standardbreds to thoroughbreds when he went to Mountaineer Park...We will not see the likes of these gentlemen ever again.....
Geoffrey Coleman My favorite JEL story is from Freehold..I was racing at the M, and I would watch the Freehold events there in the afternoon..in this one particular race, Billy Bresnahan, Tommy DeVitis and Johnny Sheehan were at the front of the field, and Jack, with a hint of sarcasm, says,"the half in 1:00.3, and the boys are at it again!!" absolutely hilarious..and the mutuels on the board reflected that fact..The Exacta paid $228+, and the Triple paid 173 and change..if you had a live triple ticket, you had to go IN PERSON to Freehold to cash...
ROGER HUSTON!!!!! I had the honor of listening to his fine calls during the Sunday evening degenerate simulcast from the Meadows in the Center City Turf Club grandstand...one night I was alone in the place with the bartender, Jackie Wallace, who in July, 1991 had this fifteen year-old son named Rasheed that she had to stash away in North Carolina due to "all the girls want to have his baby." It was a fascinating conversation he was very well-raised.
Max Brewer behind the mike..he was a legend in the Catskills...
I'm going to guess Jerry Glance made this call. Or else someone I never heard anywhere else before.
Thats just so well rat
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Except this wasn't Max this time! Why, I don't know. He was the regular announcer at MR, and he was very good to listen to. But the guy making the call here sounds a lot like the same guy that called the races at Scioto Downs----I forget his name. This guy---whoever he is---was probably subbing for Max this day for some reason.
Max died 4 months earlier in April 1977.
@@ANGELINA5461 Thank you. Even though this is all so long ago, I'm sorry to hear that.
@@geoffreycoleman3346 Heart attack at age 39.
@@ANGELINA5461 An up-and-coming star. 39. That was old to me, back then, but it's like the picture of youth to me now.
Sounds like Yonkersannouncer to me.
Right. I see that now. It was a familiar voice, but I couldn't place who. Definitely not Max Brewer, that's for sure. Dolan was really, really good---deserved a higher profile job for sure. Glance ordinary. A guy who obviously tried but just didn't have the right natural knack. Plus he had absolutely impossible shoes to fill! Gorman I didn't appreciate at the time, but I do now. I confess I still can't stand Roger Huston, despite all the good deeds he's done for harness racing. Maybe he's an acquired taste,
but if so, it's sure taking its time! I once ran into Jack Lee at an OTB in the late 80's. It was equivalent as if I had run into the president of the United States----and actually a lot more, if you want to know the truth. And even though I'm kind of shy and definitely not the outgoing type and like to respect people's privacy, I actually made a kind of overture to him---and it worked! We hit it off with him pretty good for 20 minutes or so. He was with his wife. I got in good with him by imitating what I said was his best call of all time. It was a stroke of genius on my part---because it wasn't a race! And that absolutely intrigued the man. It was a fight introduction when he was the ring announcer for the Ali-Shavers fight in '77. And so I got him going, and asked him if he remembered. He came out with (in his inimitable Jack Lee cadence, and imitating himself), "The one! The only! Mohammed Ali!" He really got a kick out of it, because it wasn't racing, and I guess that's all he heard from fans. But then I told him no. I told him his best call was how he introduced Ernie Shavers. Now he was REALLY intrigued, because he couldn't remember! And so I did MY best Jack Lee imitation (imagine his voice the way it changes at the last instant as the winning horse crosses the wire): "Has caused more blackouts, than Con Edison!" Oh Jack. He loved it! He goes to his wife, "You hear that? Has caused more blackouts than Con Edision. Do you hear what the man just said?" He and his wife were very happy with me, and he forgot all about the rest of the customers and I had them all to myself for the next 20 minutes. And two or three times during those twenty minutes, I could hear him say to himself, smiling wistfully, "Has caused more blackouts than Con Edison." He was very proud of that phrase he invented, even though he didn't remember it. It was as though I gave him a long lost gift he thought he'd never see again.
I think Jerry Glantz was a very good race caller. He had 2 strikes against him right from the start when he took over full time for Jack Lee.I went to Monticello a lot and he was quite good & listening to him over the years has made me even appreciate him more. He has a very distinctive race caller voice. In my generation, it reminded me of Tom Tresh taking over in center-field for Mickey Mantle or Bobby Mercer being the next Mickey Mantle. No matter WHO was next it would never be enough to replace him.
I don't know. Glance just never whet my appetite for some reason. The feeling I got from him was that he was trying to sound like other announcers instead of just being himself. His voice was distinctive, to be sure, but his style was not. I suppose in the end it's just a matter of taste. It's hard to define. It just feels as though there was something missing there with him.
Yes, Tresh and Murcer were real good players, but there is only one Mickey Mantle. And there forever will be only one Jack Lee.
Those of us who raced in the NYC market in the 1970's did not know how blessed we were with the race callers that manned the mikes there...Granted, i was a Jack E.Lee fan forever, but Marshall Cassidy, Jerry Glantz, and Jim Dolan were exceptionally talented...dolan was fairly unappreciated during his stint at Scioto Downs, but his style carried from standardbreds to thoroughbreds when he went to Mountaineer Park...We will not see the likes of these gentlemen ever again.....
Geoffrey Coleman My favorite JEL story is from Freehold..I was racing at the M, and I would watch the Freehold events there in the afternoon..in this one particular race, Billy Bresnahan, Tommy DeVitis and Johnny Sheehan were at the front of the field, and Jack, with a hint of sarcasm, says,"the half in 1:00.3, and the boys are at it again!!" absolutely hilarious..and the mutuels on the board reflected that fact..The Exacta paid $228+, and the Triple paid 173 and change..if you had a live triple ticket, you had to go IN PERSON to Freehold to cash...
ROGER HUSTON!!!!! I had the honor of listening to his fine calls during the Sunday evening degenerate simulcast from the Meadows in the Center City Turf Club grandstand...one night I was alone in the place with the bartender, Jackie Wallace, who in July, 1991 had this fifteen year-old son named Rasheed that she had to stash away in North Carolina due to "all the girls want to have his baby." It was a fascinating conversation he was very well-raised.
Sounds also somewhat like Jerry Glance. But definitely not Max. I honestly don't know who this guy is.
It's a young Jerry Glantz. Not Max Brewer or Jim Dolan.