Legendary NY Sports activities actions Broadcaster Al Trautwig Ineffective at 68

New York misplaced a legend … Al Trautwig, longtime voice of MSG Neighborhood, broadcaster of the Knicks and Rangers, has died on the age of 68.

“I’m sad to share the knowledge that we misplaced a legendary voice in sports activities actions. Nonetheless we misplaced far more than that,” Trautwig’s MSG colleague Alan Hahn wrote on X Monday morning.

“He was not solely a pal, nevertheless a mentor and a teacher. He was, personally, one in every of my best sources of help as soon as I moved into this occupation.”

Hahn ended his submit by writing … “Rest in peace, [Al Trautwig]. ”

Trautwig joined MSG in 1989 … and was acknowledged for his pre-and-postgame in-studio safety of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers. He moreover generally held down the play-by-play duties for the NYR.

By means of the years, Al moreover lined the New York Yankees for MSG. Trautwig moreover garnered notoriety for his safety of Olympic gymnastics … which he lined for virtually 20 years (he stopped in 2016).

Al even had performing chops. He appeared as himself throughout the 1993 John Candy conventional, “Cool Runnings.”

The explanation for Trautwig’s dying has not been revealed, however, he took a go away of absence in 2019 after being recognized with most cancers.