Posted on 09/05/2009 8:42:49 AM PDT by EveningStar
Buddy Blattner, a former major leaguer and longtime sportscaster who paired with Don Wells on the Angels' KMPC radio broadcasts from 1962 to 1968, has died. He was 89...
A gifted athlete, Blattner was a world champion table tennis player as a teenager before switching to baseball. In retirement he took up tennis, winning many national senior tournaments...
Blattner also was the radio voice of the NBA's St. Louis Hawks in the '50s and spent two seasons in the booth for the St. Louis Cardinals before coming west to work for the Angels. He joined them in 1962, a year after expansion admitted them to the majors...
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RIP.
I well remember Buddy and his sidekick Dizzy Dean on the national Game of the Week telecasts in the ‘50s.
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