Passing: ABC Sports' Jim McKay (Baltimore Sun)
From The Baltimore Sun:
By David Zurawik, Tom Keyser and Justin Fenton Sun Reporters
June 8, 2008
Jim McKay, who in 1947 spoke the first words ever heard on Baltimore television and later became the model for the modern sports anchorman with his marathon effort amid a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died on June 7, 2008 of natural causes at his horse farm in Monkton. He was 86.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/other/bal-te.sp.mckaynew08jun08,0,7183962.story
Article about the Jim McKay funeral in Baltimore on June 10, 2008:
'He was talking to me' - Giant of broadcasting remembered as a friend:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-te.sp.mckay11jun11,0,5262400.story
ABC's Remembrance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5wbdwoR58
By David Zurawik, Tom Keyser and Justin Fenton Sun Reporters
June 8, 2008
Jim McKay, who in 1947 spoke the first words ever heard on Baltimore television and later became the model for the modern sports anchorman with his marathon effort amid a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died on June 7, 2008 of natural causes at his horse farm in Monkton. He was 86.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/other/bal-te.sp.mckaynew08jun08,0,7183962.story
Article about the Jim McKay funeral in Baltimore on June 10, 2008:
'He was talking to me' - Giant of broadcasting remembered as a friend:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-te.sp.mckay11jun11,0,5262400.story
ABC's Remembrance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5wbdwoR58
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