Buddy Blattner

Robert Garnett Blattner (February 8, 1920 – September 4, 2009), commonly known as "Buddy" or "Bud" Blattner, was an American table tennis and baseball player and radio and television sportscaster.

Blattner's table tennis career arguably reached its pinnacle in 1936 when he won the men's doubles championship in 1936. He debuted with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1942, served in the United States Navy, and then played with the New York Giants (1946-1948) and the Philadelphia Phillies (1949). He became a broadcaster after retiring from baseball, and called games more or less continuously from the 1950s until the 1970s.

Buddy Blattner in Worldwar
In 1965, Buddy Blattner was calling a game between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Blues (which the Yeager family was watching) when it was announced that President Earl Warren had committed suicide and that the Race had dropped an explosive-metal bomb on Indianpolis in retaliation for the attack on the Race's Colonization Fleet in 1962.