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Curtis "Curt" Edward Gowdy was an American sportscaster. He called Boston Red Sox games on radio and TV for 15 years and covered many nationally televised sporting events in the 1960s and 1970s. Curt coined the nickname The Granddaddy of Them All for the Rose Bowl Game, taking the moniker from the Cheyenne Frontier Days in his native Wyoming.

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• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13399280/curt-gowdy: accessed July 20, 2024), memorial page for Curt Gowdy (31 Jul 1919–20 Feb 2006), Find A Grave: Memorial #13399280, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
• Wikipedia contributors. (2024, June 26). Curt Gowdy. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:47, July 20, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
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There is a special place in my heart for the radio and TV sports announcers I grew up with. From ABC's Wide World of Sports to roller derby and wrestling, and everything in between, sports was a big part of my life growing up. At my house, we watched on TV whatever sport was 'in season,' especially on Saturday's. If there was a sports event on radio, we listened to it. I was very blessed to grow up with many now- legendary voices and characters. Today, I want to pay tribute to Curt Gowdy.



Curt Gowdy made his broadcasting debut in 1943 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, calling a 'six-man' high school football game from atop a wooden grocery crate in subzero weather with 15 people present. He later worked at the radio station and newspaper there. In 1946, he accepted an offer from KOMA radio in Oklahoma City to broadcast Oklahoma college football and Oklahoma State college basketball games.

Gowdy's distinctive play-by-play style earned him a national audition and then an opportunity with the New York Yankees in 1949, working with (and learning from) the legendary Mel Allen for two seasons.

Gowdy began his Major League Baseball broadcasting career working as the No. 2 announcer to Mel Allen for New York Yankees games on radio and television in 1949–50. In 1951, he became the vo
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