{"id":658,"date":"2007-04-01T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T17:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/01\/the-voice-of-summer\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T18:34:22","slug":"the-voice-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"The Voice Of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my most enduring memories of summer as a child &#8211; between probably ages six and ten, at least &#8211; in North Dakota in the early seventies:\u00a0 the smell of dinner at my Grandma&#8217;s place as we all sat with her and watched <em>Lawrence Welk <\/em>and then <em>Wonderful World of Disney<\/em>; the taste of Randy&#8217;s Hamburgers (a small midwestern chain that made White Castle look like <em>haute cuisine<\/em>, and was the only fast-food place in Jamestown back then); and, above all, the voice of Herb Carneal broadcasting the Twins games that Dad listened to all summer on a green, Emerson portable radio in the back yard as he did one project or another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned this to hundreds of people over the year, and I know I&#8217;m not the only one for whom Herb Carneal was the sound of summer on the Great Plains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carneal died this morning at age 83, and the Twins know where he fits into their legacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins organization and millions of baseball fans across the Upper Midwest,&#8221; Twins President Dave St. Peter said in a statement. &#8220;Herb Carneal&#8217;s voice was the signature element of Twins baseball for multiple generations of fans. Clearly he was one of the most beloved figures in Minnesota sports history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was one of the lucky figures in sports broadcasting &#8211; in life, really;\u00a0the ones who not only carve out a niche, but who make it their own in a way that resonates with generations of people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carneal joined the Twins broadcast team in 1962, the team&#8217;s second season in Minnesota. He had spent the previous five seasons doing play-by-play for the Baltimore Orioles and before that had worked Philadelphia Phillies and A&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>This would have been his 52nd season of describing major league games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;ll retire the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my most enduring memories of summer as a child &#8211; between probably ages six and ten, at least &#8211; in North Dakota in the early seventies:\u00a0 the smell of dinner at my Grandma&#8217;s place as we all sat with her and watched Lawrence Welk and then Wonderful World of Disney; the taste of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}