How Rangers Radio Affected One Student's Schoolwork

One of the forgotten – but very best – Rangers play-by-play broadcasters was Win Elliott.

Win was a wonderful guy who excelled doing all sports but loved hockey most of all. Elliott knew the game inside out having played goal at college. I loved his savvy  and also the whimsy in his style.

My pal Marc Gold – the Duke of Staten Island – remembered Elliott for a scholastic reason. Marc writes: "It was the wonder of Win Elliott that got me through those Tuesday and Sunday nights of Rangers hockey in the early 1960's

"The choice for me was to either listen to the Blueshirt games or to do homework. I picked the former and the grades suffered. 

"However the excitement of Elliott doing the games made the (not for Mom to see) report card worth it. But I never expressed that fact of life to my mother!!"