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Profile of Bill Stern
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Bill Stern |
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1st July 1907 |
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Rochester, New York, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Bill Stern (July 1, 1907 - November 19, 1971) was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame (1988) and has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Born in Rochester, New York, Stern began doing radio play-by-play commentary in 1925, when he was hired by a local station, WHAM, to cover football games.
Stern was hired by NBC in 1937 to host "The Colgate Sports Newsreel" as well as Friday night boxing fights.
Bill Stern caused controversy on September 15, 1944, when he reported in a Chicago newspaper that there was an arrangement so that the St. Louis Browns of baseball's American League would not win the World Series that year. Stern later expressed regret about writing the article; the Browns nevertheless did lose the World Series that year, 4 games to 2, to their hometown rivals, St. Louis Cardinals.
Stern was also one of the first men to do commentary on televised boxing fights. After many years with NBC, he joined ABC, where he lasted until 1956.
After retiring from television broadcasting, Stern did radio sports reports and commentaries for the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1950s and 1960s. During this period, he settled in Rye, New York, where he spent his last fifteen years.
External Links
Radio Hall of Fame page on Stern
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