|
|
01-04-2024, 03:53 PM
|
#1
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 657
|
American Track Announcers From Days Gone By.
Hi People!
I have been writing a large work that I hope will be completed in the next twenty four months regarding the development of sports announcing on Television from the UK from 1948-1972.
Along similar lines I would like to do a project between now and mid summer along the lines of exploring the race calls and impact of say 5-10 US Track Announcers whose careers finished more than 15-20 years ago. If you have ideas for names you would like to see included, please post below. I think I am going to start with Clem McCarthy whose few race calls I have heard sound very distinctive and also Joe Hernandez.
However, your thoughts and ideas of US callers to look whose careers finished more than 15-20 years ago is very much appreciated.
Thank you.
__________________
http://racecallercraig.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/callstheraces
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 04:34 PM
|
#2
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,570
|
Chicago's very own Phil Georgeff, who was the announcer when I first got intoduced to this game. Some of his race calls still echo in my mind even now.
__________________
"Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why."
-- Hermann Hesse
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 04:48 PM
|
#3
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Mukwonago, WI
Posts: 3,208
|
Ross Morton was iconic at the old Gulfstream as well as Finger Lakes forever, and if you are counting harness callers, Jack E Lee.
__________________
"I don't always frequent message boards, but when I do, I prefer PaceAdvantage."
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 04:49 PM
|
#4
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 657
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
Chicago's very own Phil Georgeff, who was the announcer when I first got intoduced to this game. Some of his race calls still echo in my mind even now.
|
Definitely got to include Phil Georgeff. Some of his calls I have heard he was quite ahead of his time in describing the moves horses were making.
__________________
http://racecallercraig.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/callstheraces
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 04:53 PM
|
#6
|
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Northern California
Posts: 166
|
Aside from the obvious ones, Jack Lamarr (Philly Park) was a great listen. While his bread and butter calls were So and So is first, Whatshisname is second...and so on he'd once in a while throw out a gem like "...draws off under sunny skies and left handed urging..."
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 04:58 PM
|
#7
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 657
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisconsin
Ross Morton was iconic at the old Gulfstream as well as Finger Lakes forever, and if you are counting harness callers, Jack E Lee.
|
For now it will be TB callers but you are third person who has mentioned Ross Morton. When do you think he finished up his career?
__________________
http://racecallercraig.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/callstheraces
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 05:01 PM
|
#8
|
@TimeformUSfigs
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Moore, OK
Posts: 46,830
|
Marshall Cassidy and Dick Wooley.
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 05:03 PM
|
#9
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 175
|
Jim Hannon Rockingham Park
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 05:08 PM
|
#10
|
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: JCapper Platinum: Kind of like Deep Blue... but for horses.
Posts: 5,293
|
Bob Weems
Luke Kruytbosch
Craig, the three of you have something in common.
-jp
.
__________________
Team JCapper: 2011 PAIHL Regular Season ROI Leader after 15 weeks
www.JCapper.com
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 06:22 PM
|
#11
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Mukwonago, WI
Posts: 3,208
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by craigbraddick
For now it will be TB callers but you are third person who has mentioned Ross Morton. When do you think he finished up his career?
|
When he died of a stroke in 2008.
__________________
"I don't always frequent message boards, but when I do, I prefer PaceAdvantage."
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 06:35 PM
|
#12
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2022
Posts: 312
|
Retirement date and being out of the game 15-20 years is fine, but getting first hand accounts are going to all the harder. So, I have ignored that to give you all of the memorable callers that I have heard (live or video). My list is no particular order (with some names that many have forgotten):
Fred Caposella
Marty Glickman (YR, 1963-69)
Stan Bergstein (Grand Circuit Meetings)
Jack E. Lee (RR, Freehold, Suffolk Meadows)
"Bullet" Bob Myers (YR, Saratoga)
Max Brewer (MR)
Dick Longtin (Parr Meadows)
Gil Levine (Sportsman's Park)
Tony Salvaro (Maywood)
John Bothe (Meadowlands)
Sam McKee (Starting at Detroit Race Course)
Dave Johnson
Marshall Cassidy
Tom Durkin
Harry Henson
Chick Anderson
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 06:37 PM
|
#13
|
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 148
|
Constantine "Costy" Caras -Charles Town
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 06:57 PM
|
#14
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 657
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff P
Bob Weems
Luke Kruytbosch
Craig, the three of you have something in common.
-jp
.
|
I give a little nod to them both every day I enter the booth at Turf Paradise. Did you ever see the light box I had made up for Luke that lives in the booth now?
__________________
http://racecallercraig.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/callstheraces
|
|
|
01-04-2024, 06:58 PM
|
#15
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 657
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollingpk3
Jim Hannon Rockingham Park
|
Was Jim Hannon also the caller at Calder?
Thanks
__________________
http://racecallercraig.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/callstheraces
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|