In 1968, after a disastrous experience calling play-by-play of a football game in Ottawa, Illinois, "(Don) Fischer was truly desperate. He tossed through the night, got up Saturday morning and cold-called Art Kimball, an accomplished high school sports play-by-play man at WLPO in nearby LaSalle-Peru," reports the Indianapolis Star. "Kimball invited him over after church the next day. He covered everything, background reading, rosters, charts, interviews, game preparation. Fischer took notes for five...
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