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Curt Gowdy, one of the signature voices of sports for a generation and the longtime broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox, died Monday at 86.
He died in Palm Beach after a long battle with leukemia, Red Sox spokeswoman Pam Ganley said.
Gowdy made his broadcasting debut in 1944 and went on to call 13 World Series and 16 All-Star Games.
In 1951 Gowdy became main play-by-play voice on the Red Sox broadcast team. He left the Red Sox in 1966 for a 10-year stint as "Game of the Week" announcer for NBC.
"To fans in New England in the 1950s and '60s, his was the voice that told the stories of the Red Sox to a generation of fans," Dr. Charles Steinberg, the Red Sox's executive vice president of public affairs, told Boston.com. "He was the voice under the pillow."
He was also the longtime host of the "American Sportsman" series.
"He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC sports has ever had," NBC Universal Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday. "He literally carried the sports division at NBC for so many year on his back. ... He was a remarkable talent and he was an even more remarkable human being."
"Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest of standards for everyone in sports broadcasting," said George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN Inc. and ABC Sports. "His many contributions to ABC, as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs, are indelible. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Curt's family, including longtime ABC Sports producer Curt Gowdy, Jr."

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During a time where we are not real proud of Cheney being from Wyoming it is nice to see a gentle man such as Gowdy and the respect he has earned. Gowdy was from Green River, Wyoming and started his brodcasting career in Laramie, Wyoming.

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