Chick Hearn
Announcer, Hall of fame inductee
1916 – 2002
Who was Chick Hearn?
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was an American sportscaster. Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, Hearn was remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, inventing colorful phrases such as slam dunk, air ball, and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular, and for broadcasting 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Additionally, Hearn started the now common tradition of estimating the distance of shots taken.
Of note is that most of Hearn's games in the television era were simulcast on both radio and television, even after most teams chose to use different announcers for the different media.
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- Born
- Nov 27, 1916
Aurora - Also known as
- Francis Dayle Hearn
- Francis 'Chick' Hearn
- Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn
- Chick
- Spouses
- Marge Jeffers
(1938/08/13 - 2002/08/05)
- Marge Jeffers
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bradley University
- Died
- Aug 5, 2002
Northridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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