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Bill Wilhelm, Arthur Boyle, Don Gibson and Bill Rossi
proudly display their
AP Massachusetts
Award
for Best Sports Play-by-Play for Small Market Radio
in New England
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Bill
Wilhelm was born in Uniontown, PA and grew up in Southern
New Jersey. He graduated from Kent State in Ohio in 1968
and after a brief stint as an infielder with the US team
in the Global Baseball League, he came to Duxbury and
in 1969 entered the life insurance business.
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When WATD-fm was formed in 1977
he joined the staff as the Sports Director, and
has remained in that position ever since. As such
his focus has been on local amateur and high school
athletes. Beside deciding what games are to be broadcast,
he also does the morning "drive time" sports every
day but Sunday. Additionally, he does play-by-play
of high school football, basketball and soccer.
Every Sunday evening he hosts "the Sports
Exchange", a sports talk show, from 5PM to 6:30PM.
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Bill Wilhelm and the
WATD Sports Team |
In addition to focusing on area student
athletes, he covers all of the local major league franchises
(and minor, the PawSox) including Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics,
Bruins, Revolution, and Breakers (the Boston team in the
new WUSA). On Sunday evenings he gives local high school
athlete standouts their due by interviewing them either
in studio or over the phone.
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Sean Morey
of the Pittsburgh Steelers and
Matt Kalapinski of the Miami Dolphins speak
at the 2001 Football Banquet
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Bill has
interviewed many famous sports figures over the years
beginning with Red Auerbach and John Havlicek back
in the first days of the radio station, continuing
with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova during the
Virginia Slims tour. There were legendary broadcasters,
Mel Allen, Ned Martin, Curt Gowdy and Sean McDonough
among others. And, of course, there was Larry Bird,
Kevin McHale (who dropped in during a show one Sunday)
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Most recently he had the opportunity to interview some of
the legends of baseball including Bob Feller, Brooks Robinson,
Tug McGraw, Bill Lee and Bert Campaneris, as well as the
current crop of Red Sox players. |
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