re: UGA broadcaster Larry Munson has passed away

From an obituary column in the AJC... Pretty cool...

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As a high school senior in Minneapolis, Munson was, by his own account, a “decent” piano player who loved jazz. He was in class when the phone call came. The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, in town and scheduled to play 28 shows over the next week, had lost its regular piano player to illness.

“I had no idea how they got my name,” Munson once recalled. “I couldn’t believe they were interested in me.”

Soon, he found himself onstage with one of the most heralded groups of the big band era. The lead singer was a skinny kid from Hoboken, N.J. named Frank Sinatra.

“The women went crazy over Frank,” said Munson, who played every show with Sinatra for the princely sum of $31 per night. “I had never seen anything like it in my life.”

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Not terrible or sad.

A day to raise the cup to life well lived that touched many others.

That's about the best you can do in this world.

I loved hearing Paul Eels call our games, but Larry Munson was the greatest.

Go Dawgs Sick'm

RIP Mr. Munson

He was just awesome. My dad is 73 and remember him calling Nashville Vols of the old Southern Association baseball games back in 1948. For road games he'd sit at the telegraph machine and get the updates and re-create the game as if he was calling it.

He......was.........the........best. Godspeed Mr. Munson. His Herschel Walker calls were absolutely legendary