Bill Stern is the announcer.

We listened to Bill Stern broadcast it on radio on Saturday afternoons.

"When people are breaking bread together with our leaders, it's more like the real thing," Bill Stern, a spokesman, said.

If Lincoln were around today, he would be celebrating his 178th birthday, and whether he'd be jogging no one, except possibly Bill Stern, could have known for sure.

Bill Stern later described Larkin's coaching as "a gem of brevity and logic".

(See Bill Stern on the curveball.)

The play-by-play announcer was Bill Stern, a leading sportscaster of that era, and the pregame interviews were handled by a 26-year-old Mel Allen.

Unfortunately, Dr. Klawans also resembles Bill Stern in a carelessness with details that undermines the reader's trust somewhat.

It was then left to Bill Stern, a veteran reporter, to zero in on the actual name with serious, shrewd questioning.

"I have to think that other sports have higher political impact than swimming," said Bill Stern, a former swim team member from the class of 1952.