To Announcer Bill Goodwin, the $1,000 a week he got for plugging Swan soap was no soporific: he still wanted to be a comedian. His whole point in plugging soap on the Burns & Allen show—with an ...

Len Kasper sat in the old press box in Chandler ... of guys on the field,” the Chicago White Sox radio play-by-play announcer, who at the time worked for the Brewers flagship station, recalled ...