UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's pretty well hit. Get ready for number 300. Back, back, back, hey, hey!</s>DAN RONAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Jack Brickhouse described a home run, he did it with enthusiasm. To more than a generation of Midwestern baseball fans, Jack Brickhouse was the voice of the Chicago Cubs. There will never be another broadcaster like him in terms of a guy who did baseball 145 games a year, coming into your living room every afternoon or evening. Jack woke up and was quite ill, and didn't realize it at the time but it -- what it turned out was he had cancer. He had a brain tumor. At 82-years-old, he beat brain cancer. Two years ago, June 30, he was invited to come back to Wrigley Field and do a couple of innings on the air. As it turned out, that was the last game he ever did. A couple weeks later, he passed away from what turned out to be a heart attack.</s>BRICKHOUSE: My heart tells me that I have traveled the 90 feet from third to home and scored standing up. Thank you very much. I would have to say my fondest memory, if I had to name one, was Cooperstown. That's it. That's the ultimate for any baseball announcer and it's something that -- you know, I was so proud of it.
CNN 20: Jack Brickhouse Dies, August 6, 1998