Lloyd Pettit was a sportscaster in Chicago and Milwaukee as well as the owner of the Milwaukee Admirals.
11 Facts About Lloyd Pettit
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Lloyd Pettit went on to study at Northwestern University, and graduated in 1950 with a degree in television and radio journalism.
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Lloyd Pettit was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
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Lloyd Pettit worked as a Wisconsin sports broadcaster at WMAW and later WTMJ Radio until 1956.
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Lloyd Pettit returned to Chicago, where he was a sports broadcaster on WGN-TV and WGN Radio for a variety of different teams during the 1960s, including the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox.
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Lloyd Pettit usually worked as the sidekick for the main TV announcer, Jack Brickhouse.
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Lloyd Pettit's baseball broadcasting style could be described as low-key and businesslike, compared with the excitable Brickhouse.
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Lloyd Pettit is most fondly remembered by fans of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.
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Lloyd Pettit was the original choice to broadcast the NHL's national games on CBS in the late '60s, but Jack Brickhouse, who ran WGN-TV's sports operations, would not release him from his contract to do the games, and the assignment went instead to Dan Kelly of the St Louis Blues.
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Lloyd Pettit was presented with the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986.
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He, and his wife, Jane Bradley Lloyd Pettit, were both elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.