Thursday, April 16, 2009

Les Keiter dies at 89


Les Keiter dies at 89

sportscaster known for radio re-creations of games

He was a sports announcer for the Giants and the New York Knicks and called championship heavyweight fights with Howard Cosell. Later, he became the sports anchor for Honolulu television station KHON.

Les Keiter, a longtime sportscaster who was known for his radio re-creations of San Francisco Giants games for New York listeners in the first few years after the baseball team moved to California, died Tuesday at Castle Medical Center near Honolulu. He was 89.

Honolulu television station KHON, where he had been a sports anchor for many years, reported that Keiter died of natural causes and had dementia.

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