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Bob Elson (Broadcaster)
Bob Elson (Broadcaster)
Born
March 22, 1904
Died
March 10, 1981
Teams
Chicago White Sox (1928-1942, 1944-1970), Chicago Cubs (1928-1941), Oakland A's (1971)
Bob Elson was a pioneering sportscaster nicknamed "The Old
Commander".
Elson called play-by-play for Major League Baseball's Chicago
Cubs and White
Sox in the 1930s and '40s. From 1946 to 1970 he broadcast for the
White Sox exclusively, and in 1971 called games for the Oakland
Athletics before retiring.
His style was often described as "relaxed", not easily
succumbing to emotion or hyperbole. In some sense his style anticipated
the relatively low-key approach of announcers such as Red
Barber, Vin Scully,
Ernie Harwell, Skip
Caray and Herb
Carneal. His home run call would have been something like, "It's
a home run!"
Elson was presented with the Ford
C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
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