Same here. I was a regular listener in the early '70s. (WOR radio.) He had a way with words that could conjure up images like nobody else. I still remember one line from a story where he described a nude baseball game with his army buddies. He described how the catcher "squatted pendulously" behind home plate.
That sounds like him (I wish I had heard that story).
He once told a story on radio about how his father took him to Chicago to see the White Sox play the Yankees. His father, being an avid White Sox fan, hated the Yanks and let them know it at every opportunity during the game. He had a loud, booming voice and unmercifully rode Lou Gehrig, taunting him with LOUD abuse during the game. Well, (again, ONLY as Jean Shepherd could describe) he told about the foul ball that screamed off Gehrig's bat and took dead aim on his father deep in the right field upper deck seat and almost beheaded his father. Shepherd swore that Gehrig was aiming at his dad.
