This was the only baseball you could watch on TV at the time.
About the same time I was becoming a Astros fan and listening to
Gene Elston (congratulations to him on receiving the Ford Frick award this week) and
Loel Passe ("breezed 'im one mo' time") on the radio, I was watching Gowdy and Tony Kubek on the tube.
He also did all those World Series in the sixties too, when they played all the games during the day. My dad would always try to time a week's worth of his vacation when he thought the WS was going to be played so he could watch. I distinctly remember watching Gowdy call the '71 Series between the Orioles and Pirates: "Bobby" Clemente became Roberto with all his hits, the Bucs pitchers Nellie Briles and Steve Blass outdueling the Oriole greats McNally, Palmer, Cuellar.
And some of the first Super Bowl telecasts. The ones I clearly recall were III -- the seminal moment for Joe Willie Namath and the AFL -- and V, which was the first one the Dallas Cowboys played in. The Cowboys lost, on a last-second field goal to the Colts, which nearly made me kick in the screen. I was a much bigger fan of the 'Pokes then than now.
Gowdy was just as famous for being a Red Sox broadcaster and for
The American Sportsman, but to me he'll always be baseball on Saturday afternoons.