Reminiscing with Sal Messina
By George Grimm
In 1973 Sal Messina became the color analyst on Rangers radio broadcasts working with play-by-play man Marv Albert. It was the natural progression for the Queens native who had been involved in hockey and the Blueshirts for most of his life.
Sal grew up listening to Bert Lee call Rangers games on radio.
“Bert Lee got me hooked on hockey” Sal told author David Halberstam for the book ‘Sports on New York Radio’.
“In our neighborhood in Astoria, kids grew up baseball and basketball fans.