Summary:  We agree with The Plain Dealer editorial below that says Gib Shanley was "the greatest radio voice broadcaster in Browns history."  Shanley also was a consummate wordsmith who corrected one of my sports articles with a note saying "There is no such thing as a 'first annual' event.  An event can only be called annual if it occurs at least twice..."  It was a lesson learned.  He will be missed.  (Video above is Shanley being kidded about wearing a hairpiece with weather man Don Webster.)  04-09-2008

Remembering Gib Shanley, Browns play-by-play man 
Plain Dealer Editorial, April 08, 2008
    Close your eyes and remember. The calls come flooding back as if he made them just this past Sunday afternoon.
    "Pitch to Jim Brown. He's at the 40. He's at the 45. He's at the 50. He's at the 45. He's at the 40, 35, 30, 25, 20. Jim Brown is down, at the SEVENTEEN yard line."
    Gib Shanley made a call like that on Dec. 27, 1964, the day Cleveland won its last major sports championship - a 27-0 victory over the Baltimore Colts at the Stadium. It was one of tens of thousands of plays Shanley described during his 24 years as radio voice of the Browns.
    And it was calls like that that made Shanley, who died Sunday at the age of 76, the greatest radio voice broadcaster in Browns history and one of the best play-by-play broadcasters ever to grace Cleveland's airwaves.       
    For 20 years, Shanley also doubled as sports anchor at WEWS Channel 5. And in 1985, he stunned the city's sports fans by moving to California at the height of his popularity.
    "Raking leaves on Sundays while listening to the game will never be the same," mourned this page.
    Shanley eventually returned to the Cleveland airwaves, but never to the Browns' broadcast booth. In the memories of thousands of Browns fans, though, he never left it. 
  "Collins flanked out 12 yards to the right, Warfield out five yards to the left, Brewer right. Running backs are Kelly and Green. Ryan back to pass. Collins has it. Touchdown."