Lang and the crackerbox

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Karl Tegland wrote:

Ray Lang! I had forgotten about him, but now that you mention his name, I remember him well. He was first-rate -- an excellent play-by-play announcer.

When the basketball games were still at Central, Ray would broadcast from a little table set up right on the basketball floor, in a corner near the stage.

Add him to the memorable radio voices of our youth, along with Paul Harvey, Erc Aga, and Fran Anderson.

KBT

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Stan says: Yep. That was his set-up all right. Except one detail. Ray was elevated. The Central High basketball floor was so tiny the black out-of-bounds line was just six inches from the front of the stage wall. Visitors called the gym a "crackerbox." There wasn't enough room out of bounds to stand in a pair of sneakers, so a red dotted line was used for taking the ball out after a goal was scored. Since there was no room for broadcasting from the floor, (there was barely space for team benches -- the scorer's table was above them in the bleachers) Ray broadcast from his little table at the very edge of the court, but actually ON the stage, in the corner right in front of the packed roll-out stage bleachers, where the band played, and slightly behind and to the west of the basketball goal. 

Now, who was his broadcasting sidekick? (It wasn't Bob.)