In the midst of this conversation, I can't help recalling Brickhouse's call of Bank's 500th home run. I don't remember the exact wording of Jack's call, but believe he says, "the ball is thrown in to the bullpen". This occurs seconds after the ball was hit out to left center. At that point in the history of the game, I believe Ernie was one of only 9 players to have accomplished 500 HRs, and yet the ball was surrendered to him without a second thought. It would appear that times have changed a great deal...