Print, Photographic

Photograph

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Shanaman Sports Museum

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Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

2006.01.023

Description

Max Baer, left, Dan Walton, center, and Clay Huntington, right, lean on a television set in a posed photograph on April 10, 1959. Huntington was a Tacoma sports broadcaster for high school, college and professional sports for more than 40 years. He was best known as the Voice of the Tacoma Tigers baseball team of the Western International League from 1946-51. Huntington was the color commentator for the Tacoma Rockets hockey club in the late 1940s and early 1950s and was a sportswriter for the Tacoma Times. Huntington’s community interest went beyond broadcasting. He was one of the founders of the Tacoma Athletic Commission and two-time president. He began the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame in 1957, and the Washington State Sports Hall of Fame in 1960. Huntington was also instrumental in bringing Pacific Coast League baseball back to Tacoma in 1960. Huntington was inducted into the state HOF for broadcasting, sportswriting in 2005 and baseball in 2009. Photo donated by Marc Blau.

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Date made

Apr 10, 1959

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Sports Broadcasters, Professional/Semi-Pro, Recreational, High School, College

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Baer, Max

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Walton, Dan

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Huntington, Clay

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Tacoma

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Tacoma Tigers baseball team

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Western International League

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Tacoma Rockets Hockey Club

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Tacoma Athletic Commission

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Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame

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Washington State Sports Hall of Fame

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Pacific Coast League

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sportswriting