Not just an elegy to the many moments of baseball boredom but poetry that captures the confusion of the human mind, by the longtime Yankee play-by-play announcer.

White was smart and provocative as a player, and he was interesting in his early years as a Yankee announcer.

One Yankee announcer took the podium yesterday and said more than 3.5 million people had watched the parade.

Watching this folderol from a great emotional distance is Tony Kubek, the former Yankee announcer.

Barber and Mel Allen, another former Yankee announcer, were the first winners, in 1978, and received their awards at the induction ceremonies that summer.

One recalls a Yankee announcer a few years ago who started his comments before the game with something to the effect that there was a "problem with the umpires."

"The house shook and the windows rattled," the Yankee announcer said.

"The Yankee announcer would stay in New York and call the game from there," she said.

Tepedino contacted Bobby Murcer, the Yankee announcer, who is also his former teammate, and told him about Roma.

But losing out on Miller does not mean that Dave Cohen, whose two-year contract has ended, will automatically return as the Yankee play-by-play announcer.