Thank you, Mike Isaacs, for your terrific and well-deserved tribute to longtime WGN broadcaster Vince Lloyd [“The Voice of Summer,” July 11]. By waxing poetic, you perfectly captured the significant effect he had on his listeners and the role he played in our lives.
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Sadly, Lloyd’s death was reported with much less fanfare than any of his higher-profile colleagues and predecessors in passing–Harry Caray, Jack Brickhouse, and Lou Boudreau. Happily, his accomplishments and contributions to Chicago sports in 38 years as a broadcast journalist here, particularly his 23 years as the radio voice of the Cubs, will be joyously remembered forever by fans of our generation.
While the Cubs disappointed us often, especially in perhaps his and the team’s greatest yet most sorrowful season in 1969, Lloyd never once let us down. Nor did he ever focus on placing blame while reporting the final result of another Cubs defeat. “That’s baseball,” Vince would sigh, nodding to his booth partner and best friend, “Good Kid” Boudreau. “Let’s go get ’em tomorrow, Lou.”
