Frederick Michael Cusick was an American ice hockey broadcaster who served as the Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer from 1971 until 1997 on WSBK-TV in Boston, and from 1984 until 1995 on NESN.
12 Facts About Fred Cusick
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Fred Cusick was born in the Brighton section of Boston.
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Fred Cusick subsequently went into the United States Navy in World War II, rising to lieutenant in command of a subchaser.
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Fred Cusick was the announcer for the first US network NHL broadcast ; he spent four years in all working the NHL Game of the Week for CBS.
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Fred Cusick was the color commentator on WEEI for the very first game of the fledgling American Football League, a Friday night contest between the Denver Broncos and the Boston Patriots on September 9,1960, at Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University.
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Fred Cusick served as the color man for Patriots radio between 1960 and 1964.
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Fred Cusick had a notable interview with golfing legend Francis Ouimet in 1963, on the fiftieth anniversary of Ouimet's 1913 US Open victory.
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Fred Cusick's telecasts were enormously popular, and within a few years, games would be shown live on WKBG and later began a long run at WSBK-TV.
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In 1971, Fred Cusick returned to TV, succeeding Don Earle, who had been hired by WSBK when they began covering the Boston Bruins, as play-by-play man for Bruins' games on WSBK with Peirson as his color man; when NESN was formed in 1984, he did double duty for 11 years, calling games for both channels, first with Johnny Peirson and later both Derek Sanderson and Dave Shea.
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Fred Cusick retired for good as a hockey sportscaster after the 2002 season at the age of 83.
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In 2007, Fred Cusick returned to the broadcast booth as the Cape Cod Baseball League game of the week play-by-play announcer on WBZ Radio.
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Fred Cusick died in his sleep on September 15,2009, at his home in Barnstable, Massachusetts, from complications of bladder cancer.