Additional Media Career
Alongside his broadcasts for the Yankees, Rizzuto hosted a 5-minute weekday evening sports show ("It's Sports Time with Phil Rizzuto") from 1957 to 1977.
Rizzuto was the longtime celebrity spokesman in TV ads for The Money Store. He was well known as their spokesman for nearly 20 years, from the 1970s into the 1990s.
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