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Article: Casey at the mike: a Twins legend
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Bob Casey's work space is known affectionately as
"The Hole," a cramped bunker behind home plate at the Metrodome.
The Twins' public-address announcer for all but a handful of games
during the franchise's 43-year history in Minnesota, Casey shares the
place with a couple of TV cameras, their operators, tangles of wire
and cable and, supposedly, a rat named "Charlie" who lives behind the
wall. A pane of cloudy plexiglas protects them from screaming foul
balls.
"I've been here so long that I think everyone takes it for
granted," Casey said, craning his neck to peer at his surroundings.
"Someday this whole thing will come crashing down, and I'll be buried
back here and nobody ...