Clayton Klapper is a Real-Time Editor at ABC15 Arizona.
Al McCoy, the 'Voice of the Suns' for 51 seasons, has died at the age of 91.As the Valley mourns his passing, we're revisiting a 2021 interview McCoy did with ABC15 to honor who he was and the impact he had on Arizona sports.A farm boy in Iowa, in the 1940s with no electricity, McCoy had a handheld, battery-operated radio.Those were the humble beginnings for McCoy, who went on to become one of the most legendary voices in sports history.“We didn't have electricity.
He did it in exchange for free advertising at the radio station McCoy worked for at the time.McCoy took a tape of that broadcast and eventually got it into the hands of Jerry Colangelo.“I have to admit, and I did years later to Jerry Colangelo, I edited that tape until I sounded like maybe the fastest basketball announcer you'd ever heard,” McCoy said with a chuckle in 2021. “And that's what I gave to Jerry Colangelo, at that time, and that prompted him to hire me.
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