11-11-2008 VETERAN INDIANS' ANNOUNCER HERB SCORE DIES It is tough to put into words the feelings of thousands of Clevelanders (and ex-Clevelanders) who have learned of the death today of former Cleveland Indians pitcher and long-time announcer Herb Score. He was 75. In fact, we will be shocked if the Kansas City Star's sterling columnist Joe Posnanski does not write about Herb Score and what he meant to JOPO growing up as a baseball fan. Clevelanders grew up with Score. He was a part of our life. The Indians broke our hearts every year, but the one thing you could count on was Score. He was just a great guy. He made you feel upbeat about the team even though it consistently sucked season after season. Score was a superb pitcher who was destined for the Hall of Fame before being hit by a ball off the bat of the Yankees' Gil McDougald. McDougald's line drive crashed into his face, breaking his nose, cutting his right eyelid and causing swelling and hemorrhaging of the cheekbone and eyebrow. Score refused to feel sorry for himself and disliked sympathetic articles that pictured him as a victim because of McDougald's liner. "I'm a lucky fellow," he said. "I'm glad God gave me the ability to throw a baseball well for a few years. That drive could have killed me." He was never effective after that devastating injury and eventually became the Indians' radio announcer from 1963 to 1997. Everyone who ever met Herb Score is in mourning today.
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