Real Tribe Fan
11-11-2008, 09:45 AM
CLEVELAND -- Herb Score called Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, a game that brought the Indians and their faithful yet another disappointment.
The loss to the Florida Marlins disappointed Score as well. He went into self-imposed retirement and settled into a life absent the adulation he'd known as the homespun voice of the Indians. His silence left a generation of Tribe fans pleading for "Herbie" to return.
He never did. He never will.
Score died Tuesday morning at his home in Rocky River, Ohio, after a lengthy illness. He was 75.
"Today is a sad day for the Cleveland Indians family and for Cleveland Indians fans everywhere," team president Paul Dolan said in a written statement. "We have lost one of the greatest men in the history of our franchise. Generations of Indians fans owe their love of the Tribe to Herb Score, who was a powerful pitcher and legendary broadcaster. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nancy and the family."
Score had been in poor health since his car pulled in front of a tractor-trailer on Oct. 8, 1998, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, a town about 80 miles south of Cleveland. Score teetered between life and death at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, with injuries to his hip, head and pelvis.
Even after he left Aultman Hospital for home, Score wasn't the Herb Score that friends and baseball fans had come to know.
The loss to the Florida Marlins disappointed Score as well. He went into self-imposed retirement and settled into a life absent the adulation he'd known as the homespun voice of the Indians. His silence left a generation of Tribe fans pleading for "Herbie" to return.
He never did. He never will.
Score died Tuesday morning at his home in Rocky River, Ohio, after a lengthy illness. He was 75.
"Today is a sad day for the Cleveland Indians family and for Cleveland Indians fans everywhere," team president Paul Dolan said in a written statement. "We have lost one of the greatest men in the history of our franchise. Generations of Indians fans owe their love of the Tribe to Herb Score, who was a powerful pitcher and legendary broadcaster. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nancy and the family."
Score had been in poor health since his car pulled in front of a tractor-trailer on Oct. 8, 1998, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, a town about 80 miles south of Cleveland. Score teetered between life and death at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, with injuries to his hip, head and pelvis.
Even after he left Aultman Hospital for home, Score wasn't the Herb Score that friends and baseball fans had come to know.