{"id":2813,"date":"2026-06-15T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:05:52","slug":"eddie-andelman-answered-the-call-and-in-the-process-mastered-sports-talk-radio-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Andelman answered the call, and in the process mastered sports talk radio in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Save for perhaps an award named in the person\u2019s honor, this might be the surest confirmation of a sports radio personality\u2019s legacy:<\/span><\/p>\n

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When you hear the person\u2019s name for the first time in a while \u2014 perhaps even for the first time in years \u2014 a veritable pu pu platter of their catchphrases, favorites, and antics come racing from the back of your memory to the front.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eddie Andelman, known as \u201cthe godfather of sports radio\u201d in Boston for a career that spanned from the late 1960s through the early part of this century, has died at age 89. His sons, Dave, Dan, and Mike, announced the news Monday in an Instagram post on their Phantom Gourmet account.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andelman\u2019s effect on the sports-radio genre is pioneering and unassailable. He did not create sports radio \u2014 credit for that belongs to Bill Mazer at WNBC in New York in the mid-\u201860s \u2014 but he was at the forefront of bringing it to the Boston market, and did he ever master it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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