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Vince Lloyd
Vince Lloyd Skaff, who worked under the name Vince Lloyd, was a radio announcer for Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs for over 30 years. Lloyd was born in Beresford, South Dakota and after graduating from Yankton College in 1940 started his career with a number of local radio stations around the Midwest. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. During the 1950s, Lloyd was the sidekick to Jack Brickhouse on Cubs and Chicago White Sox television broadcasts, during a time when WGN-TV covered both team's home games and selected road games. When beloved Cubs radio play-by-play man Jack Quinlan died in an auto accident during spring training, 1965, Lloyd was promoted to ... more on Wikipedia