Among the luminaries who crossed his path – including a broadcast interview – in this era was baseball legend Ty Cobb.īy 1968 Wells was back in Wilton living there for the first time in nearly half a century. In the late 1950s and into the 1960s callings at other media outlets in New England followed along with a stint as assistant to the president of St.
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He returned to Maine to become the first sports anchor at CBS’ Portland outlet, Channel 13 TV – now known as WGME – when it went on the air in 1954. The venues of his sports casting included Boston Garden, World Cup soccer games and PGA golf classics. Future President Gerald Ford – himself a former Yale assistant football coach – was among those in a military sports unit he commanded.ĭischarged as a Commander in 1950, Wells then further pursued his talents as a sportscaster with assignments at TV and radio stations throughout the country. His advocacy for keeping the traditional date for the observance of Memorial Day stemmed from his years as a Navy officer during and after World War II. exhibition baseball team in Berlin at the 1936 Olympics, over a dozen years as head baseball and hockey coach at Bowdoin in the 1930s and 1940s, rendering the first play by play broadcast of a football game in Maine in 1937 – a game in which Bowdoin defeated U-Maine 13-6.
Raised in Wilton and an alumnus of Springfield College, Wells’ comments on inauguration of the Monday Memorial Day laws came near the capstone of a nearly six decades career that had taken him to positions in over 20 different states and several overseas countries.
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It’s also thus an occasion to take a brief look at Wells’ own intriguing professional narrative. For this year the last Monday coincides with the 30th – the first time that‘s happened since 2011. This champion of holiday tradition, who died in 1979, would of course be pleased at this year’s Memorial Day.
Thus, as Wells was closing out his broadcast from the town’s festivities he emphatically intoned, “This is Linn Wells on the real Memorial Day in Wilton.”
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