"How Cow!" Newspapers get things wrong again!

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I should have killed myself years ago.
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_http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2007-08-14-rizzuto-timeline_N.htm#Clo
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(http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2007-08-14-rizzuto-timeline_N.htm#Close) 
1957-1996: Rizzuto endears himself to Yankees fans  with his honest, 
straightforward, Brooklyn-accented vernacular. "It's the  easiest thing, almost like 
stealing," he said about broadcasting. He often  talked about his wife Cora and 
other non-baseball subjects over the air, wishing  his friends "Happy 
Birthday" and using "Holy Cow!" as his signature phrase,  though Harry Caray had 
coined it while broadcasting for the Cardinals years  earlier.   
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(GOOGLE NEWS)
_Hall Of  Fame Yankee Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Dies At 89_ 
(http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_13759.aspx) 
CityNews, Canada -  <NOBR>8 hour
... his exclamation "Holy Cow!"  again made him a fan favourite off the field 
much as it did with Harry  Caray, the man he borrowed the trademark cry from. 
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(GOOGLE NEWS)
_Rizzuto Dead at 89_ 
(http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/08/rizzuto_dead_at_89.php) 
Television Week, MI -  <NOBR>8 hour
In the booth, Mr. Rizzuto would exclaim,  “Holy Cow!” after exception plays 
(the catchphrase was used first by  Harry Caray, another long-time 
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/holy_cow_yankee_annou
ncer_phil_rizzuto_catchphrase/_ 
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/holy_cow_yankee_announcer_phil_rizzuto_catchphrase/) 
13 March 1913, Oakland (CA) Tribune, pg. 14:
Harry Wolverton  assigned "Holy Cow" Peters to the job of umpiring one of the 
Regular-Yannigan  contests at Marysville last week and Peters is still alive. 

1 June 1914,  Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News, pg. 5A:
Denver fans have coined an  imitation of Charley Mullen's pet expression. 
Instead of "holy cow," the bugs in  the camp of the Bears yell "sacred bessie." 

8 November 1917, Chicago  Daily Tribune, pg. 6:
But, Holy Cow! WHY can't they print 'em  right!

25 May 1919, Oakland (CA) Tribune, "Hank Gowdy is honored  by the fans," pg. 
C11, col. 8:
"Holy cow! This is great!"

2 July 1919,  Lowell (MA) Sun, second section, pg. 7:
Hank Gowdy's nearest approach  to the use of profanity is the expression, 
"Holy cow." 



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