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- Coleman was the epitome of sports broadcasting and energized generations with his popular catch phrases — “The natives are getting restless,” “Oh, Doctor!”, and “You can hang a star on that one baby!” — to his masterful malapropisms, or “Colemanisms,” that he became famous for.
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Sep 23, 2018 · Coleman was the epitome of sports broadcasting and energized generations with his popular catch phrases — “The natives are getting restless,” “Oh, Doctor!”, and “You can hang a star on that one baby!” — to his masterful malapropisms, or “Colemanisms,” that he became famous for.
May 20, 1987 · The malapropisms of San Diego Padre announcer Jerry Coleman have been featured in this space more than once, but you haven't heard them all.
Jerry Coleman doesn’t. When the Padres’ director of broadcasting gets his syntax twisted, the malaprop dives irretrievably into his microphone.
Jan 7, 2014 · Remembering Jerry Coleman: a man of many malaprops. The city of San Diego and baseball as a whole lost a one-of-kind broadcaster when Jerry Coleman passed away Sunday. Coleman, who was the voice of the Padres for more than four decades and briefly managed the team in 1980, was 89.
- Jason Bauman
May 20, 2008 · Truth is, Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams didn’t buy it. If Williams, who was stateside in Florida in World War II, is called the John Wayne of baseball for his personality as a ballplayer and heroism as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in Korea, Coleman should be known as Jimmy Stewart.
May 20, 2008 · — not to mention a San Diego sports icon inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a broadcaster — the Hall owes it to Coleman to help educate San Diegans to learn who this man really is behind the self-effacing comments and the unfair reputation for malapropisms.
Jan 6, 2014 · The first I ever heard of San Diego Padres broadcaster Jerry Coleman, it was for the malapropisms. Sometimes people called them Colemanisms. He was famous for them. I remember years and years ago getting a book of baseball’s greatest quotations and half of them seemed to be from Jerry Coleman.
