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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Jack Brickhouse

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Jack Brickhouse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1917
Born: January 24
Died: 1998
Died: August 6
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Sports Commentator
Peoria
Illinois
John Beasley Brickhouse
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