Bert Wilson
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Note: This article is about the MLB broadcaster. For the ice hockey player see Bert Wilson (hockey player).
Bert Wilson was a play-by-play broadcaster for Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs from 1944 to 1955. He was an unabashed "homer", known for saying, "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Cubs!" He also invented a short-lived catchphrase for the double play combination of Ernie Banks, Gene Baker and Steve Bilko: "Bingo to Bango to Bilko". This phrase did not threaten the fame of "Tinker to Evers to Chance".
The Cubs were contenders when Wilson first began covering them, but by the mid-50s they were engaged in an annual battle with the Pittsburgh Pirates for last place in the National League. Coincidentally or otherwise, Wilson died from heart failure.
