Jim McKay, renowned sportscaster
for ABC sports, was honored by the Maryland Society for Sight as the 2003
"Person of Vision" at the Pimlico Race Course on June 28, 2003.
Guest speakers at the event
were Louis O. Schwartz, President of the American Sportscasters Association,
and Dorothy Hamill, former Olympic skater and gold medal winner.
Among those in attendance was
former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt Schmoke and longtime Baltimore Orioles
sportscaster Chuck Thompson.
Schwartz, at the conclusion
of his remarks, read congratulatory letters from Bob Costas, Curt Gowdy,
Bert Randolph Sugar, and the President of the U. S. Olympic Committee.
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