Pioneering sports talk radio host Art Rust, Jr., dies in Manhattan
New York Times |
Jan. 14, 2010 10:35 a.m.
"Art Rust, Jr., 82, a pioneering figure in New York radio sports talk shows and a sports historian whose books focused on the interplay of race and athletics, died Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan," Richard Goldstein writes. "In the 1980s, Mr. Rust became a familiar voice with his “Sports-talk” show on WABC Radio. . . . Mr. Rust was not the first New York radio sports host who bantered with listeners over the phone; Bill Mazer had an earlier popular program. But Mr. Rust ‘certainly set the groundwork and the foundation for a WFAN,’ Steve Somers, a host for that station, told the MSG Web site."
