Harry Kalas
Announcer, Military Person
1936 – 2009
Who was Harry Kalas?
Harry Norbert Kalas was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, a position he held from 1971 until his death in 2009.
Kalas was also closely identified with the National Football League, serving as a voice-over narrator for NFL Films productions and calling football games nationally for Westwood One radio.
Kalas collapsed in the Washington Nationals' broadcast booth on April 13, 2009, about an hour before a Phillies game was scheduled to begin against the Nationals, and died soon afterward.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1936
Naperville - Also known as
- Harold Norbert Kalas
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Naperville Central High School
( - 1954) - University of Iowa
( - 1958) - Cornell College
- Naperville Central High School
- Employment
- Houston Astros
(1965 - 1971) - Philadelphia Phillies
(1971 - 1975) - NFL Films
(1975 - 2009/04/13)
- Houston Astros
- Lived in
- Naperville
- Died
- Apr 13, 2009
Washington
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on July 23, 2013
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