Tommy Williams Death: According to Toby Williams, Tommy Death, Gary, Indiana, former Railcars PA announcer Tommy Williams would yell whenever he wanted to draw the attention of the audience during a Gary SouthShore RailCats game that was being played at the U.S. Steel Yard in downtown Gary. This was done in order to get the attention of the crowd.
“He didn’t just say,’may I have your attention’ or something boring like that,” remembered Jason Yurechko, the on-field RailCats announcer who worked with Williams for twenty years. Yurechko was Williams’s co-worker. To Williams’s statements, Yurechko was making a reference. He made things more heated in order to convince everyone to pay attention to what he had to say.
It is probable that supporters of the RailCats did not identify him by appearance; but, they were familiar with his loud and booming voice. Williams, who had been the voice of Region athletics and the RailCats for numerous decades, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 66. He had been responsible for providing the voice for both of these organizations.
In addition to covering sports at all levels in the Region, the public address announcer for the RailCats and sports journalist for Lakeshore Public Media was known for broadcasting a large number of games, conducting interviews with a large number of athletes, and covering sports at all levels. He was also known for his extensive coverage of sports in the Region.
Gary, Indiana, you know I love you, the Gary native who was also a co-host of the series “Prep Sports Report,” “Prep Football Report,” and “Lakeshore PBS Scoreboard” usually signed off broadcasts by saying, “Gary, Indiana, you know “The cadence that he had in his words echoed throughout the Region in a way that we would never encounter again. This was something that we would never see happen again. Tom Maloney, vice president of radio operations at Lakeshore Public Media, stated that “He was well-known and well-loved by a large proportion of the population.” Maloney was referring to the deceased individual
