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When Bob and Curt talk baseball
Familiar to sports fans in New England are the "voices of the Red Sox," Bob Delaney and Curt Gowdy, who report the games. Curt gives Report on Sports, WHDH, Boston, too.
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IF husbands in the New England area often complain that dinner is late and hurriedly thrown together during the baseball season, some of the blame can be placed on Curt Gowdy and Bob Delaney. Broadcasting the Red Sox baseball games over the team's network, these sportscasters have won many feminine fans with their friendly, informal manner. Listening to Bob and Curt talking back and forth about the game is like overhearing a couple of fellows in the rightfield bleachers, rather than two experts in a radio booth.
Chosen top sports announcer of 1950 by the New York Times, Curt Gowdy was once a famous athlete himself. From 1940 to 1942 while he was playing basketball for the University of Wyoming, Curt was named All-Rocky Mountain forward, and he also excelled in baseball and tennis. After receiving his B.S. degree, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps but a spinal injury incurred during flight training resulted in his discharge in 1943. Back in his home town of Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he'd been born thirty -two years ago, Gowdy began a radio career by broadcasting sports for a local station. Two years later Oklahoma City
beckoned and he joined the staff of KOMA to announce the football and baseball games for the University of Oklahoma. In 1949, Curt walked off with top honors in the scramble to share broadcasting chores for the New York Yankees with Mel Allen. The amiable Gowdy became the official Red Sox announcer last year, a job he does along with a daily sports show on WHDH in Boston, and a weekly TV stint in Connecticut.
Curt's sidekick on the air is twenty-nine-yearold Bob Delaney, who tried his radio wings working for a Syracuse, New York, station while attending college there. The broadcasting business runs in Bob's family — his brother manages a radio station in Connecticut. After his days at the University of Syracuse ended, Delaney auditioned at WHDH and started staff duties there in 1947.
Curt is usually Maine-bound, when he has some free time, for his favorite leisure activity — fishing. Bob's a family man — daughter Cathy, aged twoand-a-half, and eighteen-month-old Robert Jr., keep the Delaneys on the go. Perhaps that's why his hobby is a sedentary one — collecting all sorts of records, jazz, swing and the classics.