Heavily involved in sports, Laux won 16 letters in baseball, basketball, and football in Oklahoma City and Bristow schools before entering Oklahoma City College.
13 Facts About France Laux
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France Laux served in the Army Air Service during World War I; after the war, his jobs included managing a semi-pro baseball team in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
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France Laux worked as an insurance and real estate broker in Bristow, refereeing college football games part-time.
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France Laux was the first to introduce Gene Autry on the radio.
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France Laux became very popular, in large part because, at the time, the Cardinals were the southernmost and westernmost team in Major League Baseball.
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France Laux was the voice of both the Cardinals and Browns until 1942.
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France Laux went into semi-retirement after that season, but called weekend games until the end of the 1953 season, the Browns' last in St Louis.
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France Laux called the World Series for CBS from 1933 to 1938, and the first eight All-Star Games from 1933 to 1941, the last three of those for Mutual.
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France Laux turned down offers to broadcast for the Yankees and Giants in New York, preferring to stay in St Louis, where he had a huge following.
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France Laux won the first Sporting News Announcer of the Year Award in 1937.
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France Laux served as secretary of the American Bowling Congress for many years.
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On December 3,1928, France Laux married Pearl Genevieve Boyer, a professional singer.
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France Laux's remains are interred, with those of his wife Pearl, in Calvary Cemetery, Edwardsville, Illinois.