Pat Hughes
speaker
1,649 appearances
67 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2d ago
Pat Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But this crowd at Grant Park was way beyond any crowd I had ever seen.
So I asked
The stagehand, they had a stagehand.
He was kind of in charge of the amplifier and the microphones and things.
And I said, how many people do you think are here today?
Because it was my job to go out and welcome them and then introduce all the players, which I was happy to do and excited to do.
But I thought, my goodness, there are a lot of people here.
And I said, how many do you think are here?
He said, well, we had the Rolling Stones here a couple of years ago, and they had 800,000.
There's more today.
So, okay, more than 800,000.
All right, here we go.
Two of them were broadcasters.
Two of them were ballplayers.
And the two broadcasters, since that's what I do, I felt an affinity to both Jack Brickhouse and Harry Carey.
So I acknowledged them.
The audience reacted favorably and gave all four of them a nice little round of applause.
But then I got into the program.
But I felt like that was necessary.
It's something that I wanted to do, and I'm very happy that I did it.
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