Shakespeare Reference in Summer Of '49

David Halberstam's book about the 1949 baseball season focusing on the Red Sox and Yankees, Summer Of '49, contains a Shakespeare reference. It comes in a passage quoted from Red Smith, regarding the change television brought to the game: "Today, conscious of the great unseen audience, they [the umpires] play every decision out like the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. On a strike they gesticulate, they brandish a fist aloft, they spin almost as shot through the heart, they bellow all four parts of the quartette from Rigoletto" (p. 229).

This book was published in 1989. The first Perennial Classics edition was published in 2002, and the copy I read was from reissue in Harper Perennial Modern Classics in 2006.