Death of an Angel: Lyman Bostock, 1978
'It was horrific. I mean, who expects to go on the air having to announce that one of your ballplayers, someone that everyone cares about is dead suddenly/ I mean, you came on the air and you started with. 'Webegin today's broadcast telecast with terrible news,' and then just bluntly saying, 'Lyman Bostock was murdered last night in Gary, Indiana.' We are not trained to handle a tragedy like that, are we? You think in all of baseball history how many times has that happened? Where a ballplayer plays one day and the next day he's expected to appear, but he's gone."
- Dick Enberg, announcing the Angels at White Sox the day after Bostock's death.
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