Murphy, was as heartfelt a tribute to a journalist as you'll ever see athletes pay. Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth, Ryan Howard, Scott Eyre and others, picked up by David Their work was cathartic - for Harry - much like Harry's was the day Richie Ashburn died in 1997. Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen's radio broadcast and, to a lesser extent, the TV broadcast by Tom McCarthy, Chris Wheeler and Gary Matthews were what we'll rememberįrom the day Harry Kalas died. Minutes after I arrived, and its heaviness overtook any other direction I had (and blew up my and everyone else's phones to a point of 'all circuits are busy'). The area's development has come along in the four years since I was last there (and since current Philadelphia Deputy Mayor Andy Altman was the CEO of the now defunctĪnacostia Waterfront Corporation, who championed a new ballpark to spur development in an otherwise stagnant part of DC). I got to the Navy Yard Metro station and Nationals Park's centerfield gate intentionally early to walk around and check out the park, see how Harry Kalas' abrupt departure from our lives on Monday totally altered an otherwise welcome and anticipated trip to the nation's capital to see its one year old Major
