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Curt Gowdy, one of the signature voices of sports for a generation and the longtime broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox, died Monday at 86.
He died in Palm Beach after a long battle with leukemia, Red Sox spokeswoman Pam Ganley said.
Gowdy made his broadcasting debut in 1944 and went on to call 13 World Series and 16 All-Star games.
In 1951 Gowdy became main play-by-play voice on the Red Sox broadcast team. He left the Red Sox in 1966 for a 10-year stint as ``Game of the Week'' announcer for NBC. He was also the longtime host of the ``American Sportsman'' series.
``He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC sports has ever had,'' NBC Universal Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday. ``He literally carried the sports division at NBC for so many year on his back. ... He was a remarkable talent and he was an even more remarkable human being.''
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He died in Palm Beach after a long battle with leukemia, Red Sox spokeswoman Pam Ganley said.
Gowdy made his broadcasting debut in 1944 and went on to call 13 World Series and 16 All-Star games.
In 1951 Gowdy became main play-by-play voice on the Red Sox broadcast team. He left the Red Sox in 1966 for a 10-year stint as ``Game of the Week'' announcer for NBC. He was also the longtime host of the ``American Sportsman'' series.
``He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC sports has ever had,'' NBC Universal Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday. ``He literally carried the sports division at NBC for so many year on his back. ... He was a remarkable talent and he was an even more remarkable human being.''
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