Scooter was always entertaining. He brought a lot of radio to the tv game, he never left the viewer with dead-air like some of today's mlb broadcast teams do. I loved when he did games.
I recall watching a world series in the late-70's, Joe Garagiola was doing the game (I think with Vin Scully). I don't recall which network. Garagiola took some cheap-shots at the Scooter, poking-fun at how he would score an inning, presumably b/c Scooter didn't score defense by position. To do that to Scooter on national TV... he must have been the kind of person who would stick his foot out to trip his elderly grandmother.
I always hated Garagiola after that.
It says a lot that his most bitter rivals never had a bad word to say about him. There was always bad-blood between the Dodgers and Yankees, and of course Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Pee Wee Reese always gushed over Phil. And Ted Williams' Old Timers' committed campaign is about the only way he got into the HOF, something he richly-deserved. That stuff goes beyond play on-the-field.
RIP, Scooter, you will be missed.