The soothing, authoritative voice that greets fans at Yankee Stadium is the same one that sparked the first widely broadcast manager’s rant. Yes, Paul Olden, the Yankees’ public-address announcer, was the reporter whose simple question inspired Tommy Lasorda’s famous Dave Kingman tirade at Dodger Stadium in 1978.
“I jokingly say that in my obituary in Southern California, that will be in the first paragraph,” Olden, 61, said. “In my obituary in the East Coast, it won’t even be mentioned.”
Maybe not, but in the YouTube era, Lasorda’s profane response to Olden is just a click away for fans anywhere.