Such double duty would be impossible today, but in those days the Cubs and White Sox almost never played at home on the same day. In 1929, Elson began calling all home games of the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox. A few days later, officials at Chicago's WGN heard about Elson's victory and wondered what a Chicago native was doing broadcasting for a St. He became a finalist, and was hired after a vote by listeners. A receptionist saw him among 40 men in line for an audition, and thought he was going to audition as well. Louis in 1928, he took a tour of radio station KWK. Frick Award on behalf of the Baseball Hall of Fame for his excellence and longevity in the industry.īorn in Chicago, Elson broke into the broadcasting industry by accident. In his prime, was among the leading play-by-play men in the game. Known as "The 'Ol Commander", he broadcast an estimated 5,000 major league baseball games. Robert Arthur Elson (Ma– Ma) was a pioneering American sportscaster who was the voice of the Chicago White Sox for all or parts of four decades. Sure, so if you don’t want to die alone, you should try to die early, I guess.Broadcasts of Chicago White Sox baseball games
So if you’re scared of dying alone, is it a good idea to be really unhealthy? Do you feel like you’re in good health and you’re going to live a long time? Then you may be in trouble. A lot of that depends on your health though. As there are very few men as you get older and older, the likelihood of dying alone becomes more probable. For women who don’t have children, the probability of dying alone is much higher because women live longer. Sure, and most women do have children, although if you’re already a certain age, like 50, then you’re very unlikely to have children, whereas if you’re younger you’re much more likely to have kids. So we should have children if we’re terrified of dying alone? If you have children, it’s pretty unlikely you’ll die without having living children. So from a statistical point of view, how would you define someone dying alone?ĪLAN SALZBERG: Traditionally when we think of people dying alone, we tend to think of people dying without children. ** Watch: **British Comedy's Rising Star Michaela Coel on Swapping God for Filthy JokesīROADLY: Hi Alan, thanks for talking to me.
It’s a theme I return to, time and again, in my work, whether I'm asking psychics how likely I am to expire alone (they were more concerned by my hair), or consulting cat behavioral experts about whether your cat would eat you if you suddenly died ( probably not). When I can’t sleep at night, I often lie in bed and calculate the odds that I, too, will end up rotting and ignored in a flat.
Would anyone notice any irregularities in their routine? Would they, too, be like Bell and Vincent-unnoticed and unmourned? These stories made headlines around the world, and caused many people to question who'd look out for them, if they suddenly stopped leaving their home. George Bell was only dead a week before his body was found, but only because he'd left his car on the wrong side of the street and his neighbor noticed the parking tickets piling up. In 2006, the remains of Joyce Vincent were found in her London flat, where she'd lain undiscovered for nearly three years after her death, television still blaring.
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