A native of Buffalo , New York , Egan replaced Ted Husing as the announcer for Harvard football games after Husing was banned for referring to Harvard quarterback Barry Wood as putrid . From 1946 to 1973 , Egan worked for WBZ and WHDH radio , where he called Boston Red Sox , Boston Braves , and Boston Bruins games . Egan was the first baseball announcer to call a game live from an opposing team 's ballpark ; calling a Red Sox game from Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1948 . At WHDH , he spent years covering the morning drive-time news shift and playing the straight man to Jess Cain . On November 22 , 1963 Egan broke into air time to announce that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated . In 1970 , Egan briefly returned to the Red Sox booth when regular announcers Ken Coleman , Ned Martin , and Johnny Pesky refused to cross the picket line of WHDH-TV 's electrical workers
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