An executive for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football
Conference heard him announcing a charity football game. The Dodgers
hired him but folded after one season (1948). He then went to work for
the football New York Yankees. He did not accept an offer from the
baseball Yankees until Yankee P.R. director Red Patterson agreed to
hire him an understudy for Monday-Friday day games during April, May,
and early June when he was needed at John Adams High School in Queens,
New York City as the head of its Speech Department.