Bob Starr was an American sportscaster

United States

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Biography

Starr's career began calling high school and college basketball in Illinois

Illinois

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. Starr's first TV job was as a sports anchor on WMBD-TV

WMBD-TV

WMBD-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Illinois licensed to Peoria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 30 from a transmitter on Pinecrest Drive in Groveland Township's East Peoria section. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 7 and in...

 in Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

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, where he also broadcast basketball games for Bradley University. In 1966, Starr was hired by WBZ radio

WBZ (AM)

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 when the station acquired the rights to Boston Patriots games. In 1971 Starr left Boston to begin work as Sports Director for KTVU-TV in Oakland, California.

In 1972, Starr moved to St. Louis to work for KMOX radio and call games for the St. Louis Cardinals

Arizona Cardinals

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 and Missouri Tigers

Missouri Tigers football

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 football teams and the St. Louis Cardinals

St. Louis Cardinals

The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

 baseball team. Starr would spend most of his career in Anaheim, CA, where he called Los Angeles Rams football and California Angels baseball from 1980-1989. During his years in St. Louis and Anaheim, Starr also broadcast several football bowl games.

In 1990, Starr returned to Boston to replace Ken Coleman

Ken Coleman

Kenneth R. Coleman was an American radio and television sportscaster for 38 years . He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts....

 on Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 radio. Starr would spend three years with the Red Sox before returning to call Rams and Angels games. Steve Physioc would replace Starr on Rams radio in 1994 and Starr would retire from Angels radio in 1997.