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Art Rust Jr broadcast pioneer
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Posted 14 January 2010 - 11:39 PM
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 15 January 2010 - 03:03 PM
He was a master at what he did. I first discovered him in the mid 1980s when I was driving around the city listening to the radio. He was smart, funny, and he really knew his stuff. One of his colleagues quoted in the obit summed it up perfectly -
Unlike a lot of sports radio personalities he never made callers to his show look small or dumb; he could disagree respectfully and win people over.
He brought a great perspective to his work. A black man, he had vivid memories of the Negro leagues and lived through the era when Jackie Robinson revolutionized baseball. He wasn't bitter but he remembered - he took nothing for granted and he celebrated every achievement. He was a race man in the best sense of the word.
From the obit -
I'll bet it gave him a real thrill when Tony Dungy coached the Colts to a Superbowl win a few years ago and I would have loved to hear his thoughts on Obama's victory.
RIP Art.
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Steve Malzberg, Mr. Rust’s producer, said “there was a warmth” to Mr. Rust’s broadcasts.
“It was feeling like you knew Arthur George Rust Jr. and he was in your home,” he said.
“It was feeling like you knew Arthur George Rust Jr. and he was in your home,” he said.
Unlike a lot of sports radio personalities he never made callers to his show look small or dumb; he could disagree respectfully and win people over.
He brought a great perspective to his work. A black man, he had vivid memories of the Negro leagues and lived through the era when Jackie Robinson revolutionized baseball. He wasn't bitter but he remembered - he took nothing for granted and he celebrated every achievement. He was a race man in the best sense of the word.
From the obit -
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As he put it in 1976: “I lived to see blacks elected to the Hall of Fame. I lived to see Emmett Ashford, the first black umpire. I lived to see Aaron break Babe Ruth’s home-run record. I lived to see Frank Robinson become the first black manager in the major leagues. The system is breaking.
I'll bet it gave him a real thrill when Tony Dungy coached the Colts to a Superbowl win a few years ago and I would have loved to hear his thoughts on Obama's victory.
RIP Art.
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
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