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February 20, 2006
Curt Gowdy 1919-2006
It's one of the biggest regrets I have about being born in the 70s. My Dad has told me many times about when baseball started to be shown on TV in the mid-60s, and what a rush it was to actually see all the American League parks for the first time. The short porch at Tiger Stadium...the monuments in the Bronx...the scoreboard at Comiskey.
It was amazing to see them on live TV, since he had built up such a powerful mental image hearing them described on the radio all those years. And the man responsible for that image was Curt Gowdy, who died today. I feel a real sadness and nostalgia for a voice I barely knew.
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Curt was really good - for baseball, for football, for teh Olympics, for anything. Legend has it that he used to have a 3-minute egg timer that he used on baseball broadcasts. Whenever the sand ran out, he would give the score and turn the timer over so that if someone had just turned in, they didn't have to wait too long to know the score. He was an original, and he will be missed.
Posted by: Vin | February 21, 2006 08:24 AM
