- One of radio's pioneer sportscasters.
- Inducted into the American Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1984 (inaugural class, along with Red Barber, Don Dunphy, Graham McNamee, and Bill Stern.
- Ranked #12 in the American Sportscasters Association's list of the Top 50 Sportscasters of All-Time (January 2009).
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- The youngest of three children of immigrant German parents, he was the only one to survive infancy.
- His performance as the announcer at a college football game for the show The Awkward Hero (1957), which aired in the fall of 1957, concealed the fact that at this time in his real life he was blind.
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