Bob Sheppard

Robert Leo Sheppard was the longtime public address announcer for numerous New York area college and professional sports teams, in particular the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball , and the New York Giants of the National Football League.

Sheppard was secretive about his age throughout his life, but according to New York voter records he was born October 20, 1910, in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City. He graduated from Saint Johns Preparatory School in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn in 1928, and attended St. Johns University on an athletic scholarship, where he earned seven varsity letters from 1928 to 1932 three in baseball as the starting first baseman, and four in football as the lefthanded starting quarterback. He was also elected president of his senior class. In 1933, he received a Masters degree in Speech Education from Columbia University.

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