Jim Hall (announcer)

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Jim Hall is the public address announcer for New York Giants football games at Giants Stadium, located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey. [1]

After serving as the backup to longtime legendary Yankee Stadium PA announcer Bob Sheppard since the opening of Giants Stadium, Hall was awarded the Giants Stadium position beginning with the 2006 season following Sheppard's retirement from the role.

Hall continues to serve as Sheppard's backup at Yankee Stadium. He has done so for nearly forty years. He most recently appeared in September 2007 when Sheppard could not appear due to laryngitis. This was Sheppard's first absence since the beginning of the 2006 season when he missed the Yankees' opening series due to a hip injury. On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, the last Opening Day game played at Yankee Stadium, Hall was the PA announcer because Sheppard was feeling "under the weather." Hall will continue to fill in for Sheppard until Sheppard's expected return in June 2008.

Like Sheppard, Hall was a tenured professor at St. John's University for forty-five years, before retiring in 2004.

It is also of note that his voice is quite similar to Bob Sheppard's. In fact, visiting teams and media usually don't realize it's not Sheppard behind the mic.