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Gurt Gowdy. WHDH sportscaster for all Red Sox games, is known in Boston as a threeletter man — one who takes top honors whether he broadcasts baseball, football or basketball. Curt joined WHDH after a two year stint with Mel Allen on the broadcasts and telecasts of the New York Yankee games.
Selected by the New York Times as the top sports announcer of 1950, in their Honor Roll of Radio and TV performers, Curt is in the same top-flight bracket as Jimmy Durante for comedy and Fred Waring for music. Curt's citation read: "To Curt Gowdy, the announcer, who, be it baseball, football or basketball, sticks to straight reporting and abjures synthetic excitement, expertising or catch-phrases."
Born thirty-one years ago in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Curt started winning sports laurels long before he ever thought of broadcasting. A graduate of Wyoming University, Curt Gowdy was a six-letter athlete in basketball, baseball and tennis. He played on Wyoming's nationally famous basketball teams from 1940-1942. On receiving a B.S. degree. Curt entered the Army Air Corps. He incurred a spinal injury in flight training and was medically discharged as a Second Lieutenant.
In 1943, Curt started his radio career in his home town of Cheyenne, Wyoming. After broadcasting sports for two years for station KFBC, Curt went to Oklahoma City where for four years he broadcast the Oklahoma University football games, and the baseball games of the Oklahoma
City Club — members of the Texas League. In the spring of 1948, Curt joined Mel Allen to broadcast the Yankees games and this year moved to WHDH, Boston, to do the Red Sox home and road games for the 1951 season. In addition to broadcasting the play-by-play broadcasts of the Red Sox games. Curt also does a daily ten-minute program. Curt Gowdy's Report on Sports, over WHDH.
When Curt has some time oft from work he hies himself to a nearby stream and tackles "the ones that don't get away." This year, however, he's going to tangle with the big ones out on the ocean. Curt is married to the former Jerre Dawkins of Edmond, Oklahoma, and they have one child, Cheryl Ann.
Curt Gowdy, WHDH broadcaster for all Red Sox games, wins honors wherever he goes. First as a top college athlete, now as a top sportscaster in Boston.