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offTopic
10-18-2005, 07:35 PM
Growing up as a sports fan in the SF Bay Area, there was no finer voice to call a basketball or football game.

Obit from the KNBR website (http://www.knbr.com/homestory/story4.html)
Boris
10-18-2005, 10:52 PM
Yea I heard that on the radio today. I never met the guy and only listened to him for 5 years doing the A's broadcasts. For reasons I can't explain, the news made me really sad, like I'd lost a family friend. Very strange. Anyways, he was the best announcer I've ever heard.
offTopic
10-19-2005, 12:52 AM
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Yea I heard that on the radio today. I never met the guy and only listened to him for 5 years doing the A's broadcasts. For reasons I can't explain, the news made me really sad, like I'd lost a family friend. Very strange. Anyways, he was the best announcer I've ever heard.

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I didn't know he also did some Giants games with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons back in the day.

KNBR was playing highlights tonight while I was on my homeward commute, and it was killing me. I grew up listening to him do the Warriors and a little bit of the Raiders, and the 2.5 game minutes of a Warrior-Sixer game from 1976 was just awesome.

Holy Toledo!

Rest In Peace, Bill