Donald Earle Clement was an American

United States

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 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 announcer

Sportscaster

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Earle, who got his start broadcasting high school hockey games on radio, called Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

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 games on WSBK-TV

WSBK-TV

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 from 1967-1971.

From 1971-1977, Earle served as a second play by play announcer/analyst with the Philadelphia Flyers

Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

 on WTAF alongside Gene Hart.

Most of Earle's career was spent with various New England radio stations, including WAAB, WOKW

WMSX

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, and WKOX

WXKS (AM)

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 but he also worked in St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida

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, New York City

New York City

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, and at Philadelphia's WCAU

WPHT

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. He also was the sports director at WGGB-TV

WGGB-TV

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, Channel 40 in Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield, Massachusetts

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. He died in the Springfield suburb of Westfield

Westfield, Massachusetts

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