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Harry Kalas: One of the Very, Very Good Guys

ByJim Loomis 12/27/201311/07/2014

The latest issue of Sports Illustrated arrived yesterday and a number of pages were devoted to Candlestick Park. The final sporting event was held there three days ago and they’re going to tear the old place down. Built in 1960, it was a horrible venue for sports or anything else, notorious for being cold and…

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Harry Kalas: the Best of the Best

ByJim Loomis 04/13/200911/07/2014

It’s an oddity, but what must surely be a disproportionate number of sports broadcasters got their start in Hawaii doing baseball play-by-play for the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League. I’ve wondered over the years why that was, but never did settle on a plausible explanation. The Islanders began playing in Honolulu in…