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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Passing: Les Keiter, Announcer Who Recreated Giants Games (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: April 15, 2009

Les Keiter, who spent 50 years as a sportscaster but was best remembered for his three imaginative summers in a Manhattan radio studio recreating San Francisco Giants baseball games for abandoned fans from the Polo Grounds years, died April 14 in Kailua, Hawaii. He was 89.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/sports/baseball/16keiter.html?ref=obituaries

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