William C. Crowley (born 1920 in

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, died December 1, 1996, in

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) was an American sportscaster. Crowley called

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games (often paired with

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on the team's telecasts) from 1951 to 1952, and

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games from 1958 to 1960. A World War 2 bomber pilot with the U.S. 8th Air Force division, he served as a sports reporter for the

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'' Journal-Herald'', switching to Dayton radio station WONE in 1949. A year later he became the play-by-play announcer of the

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of the Central League before leaping to Yankee Stadium in 1951. In between his time with the Yankees and Red Sox, Crowley worked at

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, where starting in the autumn of 1952 he was a radio announcer for Crusaders football and

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games, economics professor, and was named Athletics Publicity Director in August, 1953. In 1961, Crowley left the Red Sox' broadcast booth to become the team's public relations director, a position he held until his retirement in 1985. He died on December 1, 1996, from

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