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Tag: Bob Blackburn

Gone, but Hardly Muted

On January 9, 2010April 18, 2024 By Glenn NelsonIn Hoops, Remembrances, Sports2 Comments

I went to as many games as a guy with a Seattle Times paper route could afford, but I knew them all because of Bob. Tommy Kron and Tom Meschery. Dick “the Duck” Synder and “Downtown” Freddy Brown. Spencer Haywood and Slick Watts. They all came to life via a voice that cannot be described as mellifluous as much as it was unwavering.

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