Bob Costas’ dad ended his venture as a high-school bookie

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“So now I have like $120, in my dresser bedroom — along with some sheets ‘Joey bet on the Jets, Sam bet on the Browns’, and my Dad found out,” the legendary sports ann…

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“This was before the internet, ESPN and scores, so mostly he bet on the games we could see in the New York area. So I’m very familiar with it and I have a sort of Runyon-esque view of the glamorous, roguish side of it. But inevitably, when you have this kind of encouragement of gambling, and it’s so easily accessible — just pick up your phone and do it — a lot of people are going to do it for enjoyment and that’s just fine.

“I can never remember a time, though, that I wasn’t interested in sports — and even that the announcers weren’t important to me. Even when I was 7-8 years old, I knew the difference between when Mel Allen or Red Barber was calling a game, or when we briefly lived in California, Vin Scully or Marty Glickman or the young Marv Albert. All of those voices were inseparable from the games themselves. The first time I thought about wanting to be an announcer, I was 9-10 years old.

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