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Shown in 1940 is the luminous Steve George, a sports casting legend in Sacramento for over 60 years. A native of Butte, Montana, George took a position with the Sacramento Union in the early 1920s. With the advent of the Second World War, he then edited the “McClellan Field,” a newspaper that was circulated to nearly 75,000 civilians. He is perhaps best known for his founding of KGMS is 1952. He stayed with the station until 1987 and, prior to retiring, he told the “Sacramento Union” the following: “I really don’t know what I’ll do. I don’t golf, don’t play cards, and I’m a lousy drinker. That’s what’s worrying me.” George passed away a year later at the age of 86.
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