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clvclv
09-18-2015, 06:17 AM
The call that may be the biggest in Braves' franchise history...

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/famed-broadcaster-milo-hamilton--the-voice-of-hank-aaron-s-715th-homer--dead-at-88-185306922.html
rico43
09-18-2015, 10:47 AM
I should not speak ill of the dead, but let's say that about zero people who knew him in Atlanta will mourn his passing. Sadly, most of them have preceded him.
DirkPiggler
09-18-2015, 11:36 AM
I should not speak ill of the dead, but let's say that about zero people who knew him in Atlanta will mourn his passing. Sadly, most of them have preceded him.

Agreed. If there is a hell, he's about well done by now.
Prikichi
09-18-2015, 11:46 AM
Que paso?
Julio3000
09-18-2015, 09:24 PM
He burned a lot of bridges and beefed with a lot of colleagues, including the Elder Carays.
rico43
09-19-2015, 04:11 PM
He also treated Ernie Johnson like sh**.
JCarbo76
09-24-2015, 09:37 AM
He also treated Ernie Johnson like sh**.

One other example. In his first two seasons in Atlanta, Larry Munson was the #2 guy in the booth. A few years back when Munson was still alive, he was on one of the sports talk shows in Atlanta as a guest, and it just so happened that the Astros were in town. Right before a commercial break after the host had pretty much wrapped his discussion with Munson, the host said: "Larry, when we get back our next guest will be Milo Hamilton, why don't you stick around and you and he can tell us about the old days broadcasting some of Hank Aaron's homers".

Munson responded with dead silence, then a groan, and they went to the break. When they came back the host was interviewing Hamilton only. In fairness, I don't think the host (who obviously wasn't around in the 60s) knew of the animosity between Munson and Hamilton.

Another college football broadcasting legend who was no Hamilton fan was Al Ciraldo at Georgia Tech, who was bumped to #2 at the Tech mic by Hamilton for a season or two in the late 60s.
rico43
09-24-2015, 02:08 PM
While we're telling tales, the one many younger fans don't know is that Milo insisted in his contract that, no matter when Aaron came to the plate during his chase of Ruth, he would step in and call the at-bat -- even if it were Ernie's inning. The irony is that Milo was on TV when Hank hit 715, so Ernie got to call it on radio after all.

Hamilton, by all accounts, was the anti-Scully as a person.