Larry Brooks, Hockey’s Unforgettable Voice, Leaves Behind a Legacy Shrouded in Mystery at 75
Hockey was his abiding professional love, and it is what he’ll best be remembered for. But early in Brooks’ first tenure with the Post he was assigned to cover the Bronx Zoo Yankees of 1977, taking over the beat after the All-Star Game, “and in about five minutes he proved he could hang in there with the most veteran baseball writers,” Steve Jacobson, who covered that team for Newsday, said in 1996.
A few weeks earlier, moonlighting for a talk-show shift on the radio while subbing for a young broadcaster on WMCA named John Sterling, he was handed a slip of paper just before midnight which he first refused to believe but then shared with all of 570-AM’s listeners: Tom Seaver had just been traded from the Mets to the Reds.
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