name	Jonathan Papelbon
team	Boston Red Sox
number	58
position	Relief pitcher
birth date	November 23, 1980
birth place	Baton Rouge, Louisiana
bats	Right
throws	Right
debutdate	July 31
debutyear	2005
debutteam	Boston Red Sox
statyear	August 19, 2011
stat1label	Win-loss record
stat1value	23–18
stat2label	Earned run average
stat2value	2.31
stat3label	Strikeouts
stat3value	489
stat4label	Saves
stat4value	217
teams	Boston Red Sox (–present)
awards	4× All-Star selection (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) World Series Champion (2007) 2007 This Year in Baseball Closer of the Year Award 2007 DHL Delivery Man of the Year Award 2007 Babe Ruth Award Holds Major League record for most consecutive scoreless innings to start a postseason career (26). Fewest appearances to reach 200 saves. First pitcher to achieve 30 or more saves in each of their first five years of major league service. }}

Jonathan Robert Papelbon (; born November 23, 1980 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed.

He was the Red Sox closer during most of 2006. In early September, Papelbon injured his shoulder. When the Red Sox were eliminated from playoff contention, he was shut down for the rest of the season to rest. Papelbon was being groomed to be part of the Red Sox starting rotation, but because of his shoulder problems, was later moved back to the bullpen before the start of the season and remained the team's closer. On August 21, 2007, Papelbon had his 30th save of the season making him the first Boston pitcher to ever have two 30-save seasons. As of July 1, 2009, Papelbon holds the record of most saves by a Red Sox pitcher, beating Bob Stanley's previous record of 132 saves.

Early career

High school

Papelbon was a three-time All-City honoree while playing in high school for Bishop Kenny High School in Jacksonville, FL. Early in his senior year, he committed to play college baseball for Mississippi State.

College: Mississippi State

Papelbon was a closer for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. He had a 9–6 record, 13 saves, and 2.90 ERA in his three years on the team in relief. During his time at MSU, the Bulldogs appeared in the 2001 and 2003 NCAA Tournaments and won the 2001 SEC Tournament. In the summer after his freshman year, Papelbon played with the Silver Spring-Takoma Park Thunderbolts in suburban D.C. The team is a part of a wooden bat league for college players. During the subsequent summers of his college career Papelbon played for the Danville Dans, a summer baseball team located in Danville, Illinois. Soon after arriving in Danville he easily became a crowd favorite and led the team to a CICL championship. Papelbon graduated from Mississippi State in 2003.

Minor leagues

After a 13–10 record for Class-A Lowell Spinners and Sarasota Red Sox from 2003–04, Papelbon was 5–2 in 14 starts for Double-A Portland in 2005. Promoted to Triple-A Pawtucket, he went 1–2 with a 3.57 ERA in four starts, walking two and striking out 21 in 22.1 innings.

Major league career

2003–2005

Papelbon was drafted in the 4th round in , a year after the Oakland Athletics picked him in the 40th round. He did not sign with Oakland because he wanted one more year in college to pitch and a chance to get to the College World Series, which his team failed to do. The Philadelphia Phillies had called him in round six to ask if he would sign if they drafted him, but he rejected the offer. Finally, the Red Sox drafted him the next year in the third round.

Papelbon made his major league debut with the Red Sox on July 31, against the Minnesota Twins, in which he went 5⅓ innings, struck out seven batters, and issued five walks in Boston's 4–3 victory. He did not receive a decision. He earned his first major league win on September 12, 2005, pitching three scoreless innings in an extra-inning game against the Toronto Blue Jays. In two postseason appearances in 2005, he pitched four scoreless innings against the eventual World Series Champion Chicago White Sox. The Red Sox had plans of slotting Papelbon into their starting rotation prior to the regular season in 2006. However, the incumbent closer, Keith Foulke, proved to be ineffective trying to come back from an injury-plagued 2005.

2006–2007

In April 2006, he changed his hair to a Mohawk style, after Charlie Sheen's character Ricky Vaughn from the film ''Major League'' due to a wager with teammate Kevin Youkilis in which they bet whether he could start the season with 10 scoreless innings.

On April 5, the second game of the 2006 season, Papelbon recorded his first career save in Texas. On April 29, 2006, he set a major league record with his 10th save, against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. No rookie in major league baseball history had recorded that many saves in the month of April.

The 25-year-old closer finished 2006 with one of the most dominant seasons ever for a rookie reliever. Papelbon saved 35 games, struck out 75 batters in 68 innings, and held opposing batters to a .167 batting average.

On October 11, 2007, Papelbon was named the 2007 winner of the "DHL Presents the Major League Baseball Delivery Man of the Year Award." Papelbon garnered 39,043 votes out of almost 125,000 votes cast.

After the Boston Red Sox clinched the American League East title in 2007, Papelbon celebrated the victory by Irish step dancing in the middle of the Fenway Park diamond to the Dropkick Murphys' song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston", a song which he now is introduced to. Following the Red Sox American League Championship Series victory, he repeated his dance performance on the field with members of the band. For a third time, Papelbon did his dance on a flat bed truck with the World Series trophy over his head along with the Dropkick Murphys playing live during the Sox' Championship "Rolling Rally" Parade.

In late 2007 on Dan Patrick's radio show, David Ortiz revealed a friendly clubhouse wager that stated that Papelbon must perform his signature celebratory dance on demand for people wearing Boston Red Sox apparel. Terms of the bet were not disclosed, but it is rumored that Ortiz wagered 20 cases of Vitamin Water against Papelbon's offer of 1 free car from The Westville Motorsports Megastore, a local dealership he endorses. In Game 2 of the World Series Papelbon was brought in with the bases empty and 2 outs in the eight with the Red Sox leading 2–1 to face the Rockies best hitter, Matt Holliday. Papelbon gave up a single to Holliday before picking off Holliday to end the inning. Papelbon pitched a one-two-three ninth for the save.

In Game 4 of the 2007 World Series, he entered in the 8th inning to shut down the Colorado Rockies comeback, and pitched until the 9th where he threw the game-winning strikeout for the Red Sox as they clinched the 2007 Championship. He is well known for his victory jump with Jason Varitek.

2008–present

On March 6, 2008, Papelbon agreed to terms with the Boston Red Sox for $775,000. Papelbon's deal set the record for the largest contract for a closer not eligible for salary arbitration, topping Mariano Rivera's previous record by $25,000. Boston was under no obligation to pay Papelbon more than the league minimum of $390,000. On January 20, 2009, Papelbon agreed to a one-year $6.25 million contract with the Red Sox, avoiding arbitration. This is the largest contract for a closer in his first year of arbitration eligibility. Papelbon recorded his 100th career save on July 13, 2008. Among pitchers who have thrown at least 200 innings, Jonathan Papelbon's 0.930 WHIP through 2008 is the lowest in major league history.

Papelbon criticized former teammate Manny Ramirez in the April 2009 issue of ''Esquire'' magazine.

On June 29, 2009, Papelbon gained his 132nd save, in a 4–0 shut out against the Baltimore Orioles, tying Bob Stanley's record for most saves by a Red Sox pitcher. Two days later on July 1, Papelbon recorded his 133rd save with the Red Sox, starting a new record. On July 5, 2009, Jonathan was selected to represent Boston at the 2009 All Star Game.

Papelbon has been cited repeatedly for his slow play; on September 4, 2009 it was reported that he had been fined $5,000 for failing to deliver his first pitch within the required time in a September 1 appearance. Papelbon told the Boston Herald that he had been cited on at least five occasions and fined more than $10,000 for these violations. Papelbon jokingly added, "I think they're going to call my parole officer and put me away."

In the 2009 ALDS, Game 3, Boston down 2 games to none, Papelbon blew the save (causing Boston to be swept), allowing 4 hits, 3 runs, all of the runs scoring with 2 out. His difficulties continued into the next season. In 2010, he blew eight saves, leaving the possibility of him being traded elsewhere. The Red Sox ended up keeping Papelbon as their closer, and his productivity has seemingly improved over the 2011 season. On June 7, 2011, Papelbon recorded his 200th career save, and achieved the mark in the fewest number of appearances (359), beating Mariano Rivera's mark in 382 appearances.

Papelbon will become a free agent after the 2011 season.

Personal life

His mother, Sheila, played softball at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and his father, John, is the Deputy Director of the Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg, Florida. Jonathan is the older brother of twins Josh Papelbon, former pitcher for the Brockton Rox, and Jeremy Papelbon, former pitcher for the Tennessee Smokies, the double-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.

Papelbon and his wife, Ashley, live in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Wayland, Massachusetts. On December 29, 2008, Ashley gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter. On April 17, 2010, Ashley gave birth to the couple's second child, a son.

He appeared on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' on October 31, 2007, after the Red Sox won the 2007 World Series. On December 20, 2007, Papelbon claimed that his dog "Boss," chewed up the ball that recorded the final out of the 2007 World Series.

Papelbon is an avid fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and attends games at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium after the completion of the baseball season.

Achievements

4x All-Star (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

Holds the single-season record for most saves in a season by a Red Sox rookie (2006).

Second in 2006 American League Rookie of the Year voting to Justin Verlander.

First pitcher in Red Sox franchise history to have three 30 save seasons.

Holds the Major League record for most consecutive scoreless innings to start a postseason career (25).

Holds the Red Sox team record of most saves.

Only pitcher to record 25 saves in each of his first five full seasons; he has gone beyond that and recorded 30 in each of those years. Fastest pitcher in MLB history to reach 200 career saves.;

See also

List of Major League Baseball all-time saves leaders

References

External links

ESPN: "Red Sox believe Papelbon is the real deal"

Sports Illustrated: "Late & Great" by Tom Verducci

Jonathan Papelbon Video at FoxSports Video Archive

Jonathan Papelbon Contract Price in the Fantasy Baseball Stock Exchange

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Name	Curt Gowdy
Birth date	July 31, 1919
Birth place	Green River, Wyoming
Death date	February 20, 2006
Death place	Palm Beach, Florida
Footnotes	Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, 2007 }}

Curtis Edward "Curt" Gowdy (July 31, 1919–February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster, well-known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox and for his coverage of many nationally-televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Early years

The son of a manager for the Union Pacific railroad, Curt Gowdy was born in Green River, Wyoming, and moved to Cheyenne at age six. As a high school basketball player in the 1930s, he led the state in scoring. He enrolled at the University of Wyoming in Laramie where he was a 5'9" (175 cm) starter on the basketball team and played varsity tennis, lettering three years in both sports for the Cowboys. He was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

After graduating in 1942 with a degree in business statistics, Gowdy aimed to become a fighter pilot, but a ruptured disk in his spine from a previous sports injury cut short his service in the Army Air Force, leading to a medical discharge in 1943.

In November of that year, recovering from back surgery, Gowdy made his broadcasting debut in Cheyenne calling a ''six-man'' high school football game from atop a wooden grocery crate in sub-zero weather, with about 15 people in attendance. He found he had a knack for broadcasting and worked at the small KFBC radio station and at the ''Wyoming Eagle'' newspaper as a sportswriter (and later sports editor). After several years in Cheyenne, he accepted an offer from CBS's KOMA radio in Oklahoma City in 1946. He was hired primarily to broadcast Oklahoma college football (then coached by new hire Bud Wilkinson) and Oklahoma State college basketball games (then coached by Hank Iba). It was in Oklahoma that he met his wife, Jerre Dawkins, a graduate student at OU.

Gowdy's distinctive play-by-play style during his subsequent broadcasts of minor league baseball, college football, and college basketball in Oklahoma City earned him a national audition and then an opportunity with the New York Yankees in 1949, working with (and learning from) the legendary Mel Allen for two seasons.

Family Background

He was married to Geraldine Dawkins Gowdy. He had 3 children: Cheryl Ann Gowdy, Curtis Edward Gowdy Jr., and Trevor Allen Gowdy

Boston Red Sox

Gowdy began his Major League Baseball broadcasting career working as the No. 2 announcer to Mel Allen for New York Yankees games on radio and television in 1949–50. There, he succeeded Russ Hodges, who departed to become the New York Giants' lead announcer when the Yankees and Giants decided to broadcast a full slate of 154 games, instead of sharing the same radio network and announcers for 77 games each. Two years later, in Boston, the Red Sox and the Boston Braves followed a similar path, with each team opting for its own networks and announcers. Jim Britt decided to stay with the Braves, opening the top spot on the Red Sox' broadcast team.

In April at the age of 31, Gowdy began his tenure as the lead announcer for the Red Sox. For the next 15 years, he called the exploits of generally mediocre Red Sox teams on WHDH radio and on three Boston TV stations: WBZ-TV, WHDH-TV, and WNAC-TV. During that time, Gowdy partnered with two future baseball broadcasting legends: Bob Murphy and Ned Martin. Chronic back pain caused Gowdy to miss the entire season.

He left the Red Sox after the season for NBC Sports, where for the next ten years he called the national baseball telecasts of the Saturday afternoon ''Game of the Week'' and ''Monday Night Baseball'' during the regular season (and the All-Star Game in July), and the post-season playoffs and World Series in October.

National broadcaster

Early ABC Sports career

Gowdy had numerous network assignments, first for ABC-TV in 1960, where he covered the first five seasons of the American Football League with broadcast partner Paul Christman. Gowdy and Christman also teamed to call college football for ABC during this period.

NBC Sports

In the fall of 1965 he moved to NBC, with whom he would be employed for over a decade. Gowdy was the lead play-by-play announcer for the network for both the American Football League (AFC from 1970 on) and Major League Baseball, but Gowdy also covered a wide range of sports, earning him the nickname of the "broadcaster of everything."

Besides Paul Christman, who followed him to NBC in 1965, his other football broadcast partners were Kyle Rote, Al DeRogatis, Don Meredith, John Brodie, and Merlin Olsen. His broadcast partners for baseball included Pee Wee Reese, Tony Kubek, Sandy Koufax, and Joe Garagiola. He also had many different partners for basketball. Al DeRogatis was also Gowdy's partner for the college football games.

Departure from NBC's baseball telecasts

After the 1975 World Series, he was removed from NBC's baseball telecasts, after a controversy over comments by a call by an umpire, and when sponsor Chrysler insisted on having Joe Garagiola (who was their spokesman in many commercials) be the lead play-by-play voice. While Gowdy was on hand in the press box for Carlton Fisk's legendary home run in Game 6 of the 1975 Series, the actual calls went to two of Gowdy's Red Sox successors, Dick Stockton on TV and Ned Martin on radio. Gowdy was Martin's color man on that home run.

Later work

Gowdy continued as NBC's lead NFL announcer through the 1978 season, with his final broadcast being the memorable Super Bowl XIII between Pittsburgh and Dallas. With NBC now anxious to promote Dick Enberg to the lead NFL position, Gowdy moved over to CBS to call more football, as well as baseball on radio. He also called regional college football for ABC in 1982 and 1983.

Notable moments called by Gowdy

Curt Gowdy was present for some of American sports' storied moments, including Ted Williams' home run in his final at-bat in , Super Bowl I, the AFL's infamous "Heidi" game of 1968, and (after the 1968 pro football season) the third AFL-NFL World Championship game (Super Bowl III) in which Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeated the NFL champion Baltimore Colts. He also covered Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception" of 1972, Clarence Davis' miraculous catch in a "sea of hands" from Oakland Raiders Quarterback Ken Stabler, to defeat the Miami Dolphins in the final seconds of a legendary 1974 AFC playoff game, and Hank Aaron's 715th home run in . In an interview by NFL Films, he said his most memorable game was Super Bowl III when the Jets upset the heavily-favored Colts 16–7 after Namath guaranteed victory. Gowdy endeared himself to long-suffering American Football League fans when it was learned that in an off-air break towards the end of the game, he asked rhetorically: ''"I wonder if that (S.O.B.) Tex Maule is watching?"'', a reference to the Sports Illustrated writer who for years had denigrated the AFL. On-air, in contrast to his contemporary announcers of NFL games, he avoided their hyperbole and transparent adulation of players, and gave steady, non-partisan, but colorful descriptions of AFL games. Gowdy was also known for the occasional malapropism, including a consoling comment just after the Red Sox lost the 1975 World Series: ''"Their future is ahead of them!"''

Notable assignments

Over the course of a career that stretched into the 1980s, Gowdy covered pro football (both the AFL and NFL), Major League Baseball, college football, and college basketball. He was involved in the broadcast of 13 World Series, 16 baseball All-Star Games, 9 Super Bowls, 14 Rose Bowls, 8 Olympic Games and 24 NCAA Final Fours. He also hosted the long-running outdoors show ''The American Sportsman'' on ABC.

Gowdy called all the Olympic Games televised by ABC (with the exception of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games) from 1964–84 with Roone Arledge's sports department at ABC.

In the mid-1970s Gowdy was host and producer of ''The Way It Was'', for PBS, and in later years provided historic commentary for ''Inside the NFL'', on HBO.

Relationship with Roone Arledge

Gowdy was also close friends with Arledge, and acknowledges that he gives him all the credit for making ABC what it is today, including the creation of the network's sports department, and the innovations for televising sporting events that made the sports departments at NBC and CBS jealous. The two were the creators, and very first producers for the ''Wide World of Sports'' television show.

In 1970, he was coveted by ABC's Roone Arledge for the new ''Monday Night Football'', but Gowdy was bound by his contract to NBC Sports (although he continued with Grits Gresham of Natchitoches, Louisiana, to host the outdoors show ''The American Sportsman'' on ABC).

Commentating style

Gowdy was said to have a warm, slightly gravelly voice and an unforced, easy style that set him apart from his peers. (Author John Updike once described him as sounding "like everybody's brother-in-law".) Unlike many well-known sportscasters, Gowdy never developed catchphrases or signature calls, but merely described the action in a straightforward manner. Examples:

Retirement

Gowdy retired in 1985, when ''The American Sportsman'' was canceled.

He briefly came out of retirement in 1987 to call the New England Patriots' radio broadcasts, and in 1988 he returned to NBC to call some September NFL games with Merlin Olsen and old partner Al DeRogatis, while Olsen's regular partner Dick Enberg was covering the Summer Olympics in Seoul.

In May , a few months shy of his 84th birthday, Gowdy called a Red Sox–Yankees game from Fenway Park, as part of the ''ESPN Major League Baseball'' "Living Legends" series. At the end of the broadcast, he thought he could have done better. ESPN's Chris Berman said, ''"We'll give you another chance."'' Gowdy replied, ''"Call me back."''

Gowdy also co-hosted the DCI Championships on PBS from 1989-1993 with Steve Rondinaro.

Film cameos

Gowdy made cameo appearances in the movies ''The Naked Gun'' (1988) and ''Summer Catch'' (2001), and his voice can be heard in ''Heaven Can Wait'' (1978) and ''BASEketball'' (1998).

Author

Mr. Gowdy, who also did some sportswriting during his early broadcasting days, wrote two books: ''Cowboy at the Mike'' (1966), with Al Hirshberg, and ''Seasons to Remember: The Way It Was in American Sports, 1945-1960'' (1993), with John Powers. He also wrote the foreword for the 2000 book ''The Golden Boy'', authored by Dr. George I. Martin, in which Gowdy described the subject of the book, Jackie Jensen, as possibly the best athlete he had ever covered.

Radio stations

In 1963, Gowdy purchased radio stations 800/WCCM and 93.7/WCCM-FM in Lawrence, Massachusetts, later changing the FM station's call letters to WCGY to somewhat match his name. Gowdy also owned several radio stations in Wyoming, including KOWB and KCGY in Laramie. He sold his broadcast interests in Massachusetts in 1994 and his Wyoming stations in 2002. He also owned 850/WEAT & WEAT-FM in West Palm Beach, Florida, and WBBX(AM) in New Hampshire. The year away from broadcasting the Red Sox in 1957 awakened him to the fact that he might need an alternate way of making of living, leading to his interest in station ownership.

Television commercials

In the 1980s, Gowdy voiced a series of beer commercials for Genesee, an American product brewed by the Genesee Brewing Company in Rochester, New York. Essentially, these ads had an outdoor enthusiast theme, with Curt's tag line being "Genesee - the great outdoors in a glass".

Awards

In 1970, Gowdy became the first sportscaster to receive the George Foster Peabody Award. He was elected to the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1981. In 1985, he was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame along with the Voice of the Yankees Mel Allen and Chicago legend Jack Brickhouse. He served as the organization’s vice president and was a member of its Board of Directors. In addition, he was given the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in , the Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993 and a lifetime achievement Emmy in 1992, and was selected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in . Gowdy was president of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for several years, and that institution's Curt Gowdy Media Award is presented annually to outstanding basketball writers and broadcasters; he was one of its first two recipients.

Curt Gowdy's 22 Halls of Fame honors/inductions:

1. Conservation Hall of Fame International - April 16, 1973

2. International Fishing Hall of Fame - 1981

3. Natl. Sportscasters & Sportswriters Hall of Fame - 1981

4. Sportswriters & Broadcasters Hall of Fame - 1984

5. National Baseball Hall of Fame - 1984, Ford C. Frick Award recipient

6. American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame - 1985

7. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - 1990, Curt Gowdy Media Award recipient

8. Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame - 1990

9. Gold Medal Hall of Fame Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New England

10. Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame - 1992

11. Pro Football Hall of Fame - 1993, Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award recipient

12. Oklahoma Assoc. of Broadcasters Hall of Fame - 1994

13. Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame - 1995

14. American Football League Hall of Fame - 1995

15. University of Wyoming Athletics Hall of Fame - September 25, 1998

16. Florida Sports Hall of Fame - 1999

17. Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame --- 2001

18. International Game Fish Association (IGFA) Fishing Hall of Fame - 2003

19. Wyoming Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame - 2003

20. Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame - 2004

21. National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame - 2005

22. Rose Bowl Hall of Fame --- 2005 inductee (Jan. 3, 2006)

Curt Gowdy State Park

A new state park in Wyoming, opened in 1971, was officially named for Gowdy on March 27, 1972, one of numerous honors bestowed on the native son from the state of Wyoming on "Curt Gowdy Day." The 11,000 acre (44 km²) Curt Gowdy State Park is halfway between his highschool hometown of Cheyenne and his college town of Laramie. Additional land was acquired by the state for the park in 2006. "It has two beautiful lakes, hiking trails, camping, boating, fishing, and beauty", said Gowdy. "It has everything I love. What greater honor can a man receive?"

Gowdy was proud of his Wyoming heritage and loved the outdoors, and said that he was "born with a fly-rod in one hand", and that the sports microphone came a little later. In 2002, he recalled that his father, Edward Curtis Gowdy, who had taught him to hunt and fish, was the best fly-fisherman in the state. "We had free access to prime-time fishing and hunting. The outdoors was a way of life for me. I should have paid them to host ''The American Sportsman''."

Death

Curt Gowdy died at the age of eighty-six at his winter home in Palm Beach, Florida, after an extended battle with leukemia. His funeral procession circled Fenway Park and he was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was survived by his wife Jerre, daughter Cheryl Ann, sons Curt, Jr., and Trevor, and five grandchildren.

Curt Gowdy Post Office Building

On October 12, 2006, the United States Postal Service building in Green River, Wyoming, was officially designated as the "Curt Gowdy Post Office Building", honoring the place of Gowdy's birth. The legislation required for the USPS name change was introduced by Wyoming House Representative Barbara Cubin.

References

External links

Baseball Hall of Fame - Frick Award recipient

American Football League Hall of Fame Curt Gowdy's citation

Archive of American Television

Ex-Red Sox Broadcaster Curt Gowdy Dies

Red Sox mourn the loss of Hall of Fame broadcaster Curt Gowdy -- Boston Red Sox press release

Full 3-hour Archive of American Television interview with Curt Gowdy on Google Video

Sports E-Cyclopedia's Memoriam to Curt

Curt Gowdy dies at 86 ''The New York Times'' 21-Feb-2006

In memory of Curt Gowdy - U.S. Senator Craig Thomas 27-Feb-2006

Curt Gowdy State Park - 1972 west of Cheyenne, Wyoming

Curt Gowdy, Milo Hamilton and Vin Scully's Calls of Aaron's 715th Home Run from Archive.org

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