Art Gleeson was an American

United States

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 baseball

Baseball

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 announcer.

Gleeson got his start calling games for teams in the California League

California League

The California League is a Class A Advanced minor league baseball league which operates throughout the state of California. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High-A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth...

 games during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Gleeson would join the Navy during World War II

World War II

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 and worked for the Armed Forces Network after being discharged from submarine service., From 1946-1949 he was play by play announcer for the Oakland Oaks

Oakland Oaks (PCL)

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 of the Pacific Coast League

Pacific Coast League

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. In 1950, he joined Mutual Broadcasting System

Mutual Broadcasting System

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, where he called New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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 games with Mel Allen

Mel Allen

Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Allen was arguably the most prominent member of his profession, his voice familiar to millions...

 from 1951–1952 and the "Mutual Game of the Day" from 1953-1959. From 1956-1960 Gleeson was the sports director of MBS. Gleeson joined the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 broadcast team in 1960, calling games with Curt Gowdy

Curt Gowdy

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, Bill Crowley (1960), & Ned Martin

Ned Martin

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 (1961–1964) for five seasons. Gleeson died after the 1964 season and was replaced by Mel Parnell

Mel Parnell

Melvin Lloyd Parnell is a former Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher.Parnell spent his entire ten-year career with the Boston Red Sox , compiling a 123-75 record with 732 strikeouts, a 3.50 earned run average, 113 complete games, 20 shutouts, and 1752.2 innings pitched in 289 games...

in the Red Sox booth.