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Davidoff: Oh, to hear Bob Sheppard one more time

Ken Davidoff

Newsday columnist Ken Davidoff. Ken Davidoff

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Call me hopelessly naive, but I still rooted for Bob Sheppard to somehow gain the strength to work one full shift at the new Yankee Stadium.

Leave it to the still sharp Sheppard to set me straight. As he told Newsday's Neil Best, "I don't think a man 99 years old goes back to work after two years of separation.''

And so we (pretty much) officially bid farewell to another piece of the...

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