Robert E. "Bob" Fouracre (born November 22, 1937) is an American

United States

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 sportscaster

Sportscaster

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 who currently calls football and basketball

Basketball

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 for the College of the Holy Cross

College of the Holy Cross

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. He is a 1956 graduate of Northboro High School, a 1958 graduate of the Cushing Academy and a 1962 graduate of the Cambridge School of Broadcasting.
Fouracre has called Holy Cross football since 1970 and Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

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 since 1989. From 1970-1981, Fouracre worked at WSMW-TV

WUNI

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 where he called Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics

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 games (1971–73),, hosted "Bay State Bowling" (1970–81), and called college basketball and football games. Fouracre began his career at WARE

WARE

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, calling high school sports from 1962-1969.

Fouracre called games for the WBL

World Basketball League

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's Worcester Counts in 1989, the CBA

Continental Basketball Association

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's Bay State Bombardiers on NESN and WORC (AM) (1983–86), and hosted "Big Shot Bowling" on NESN (1985-91). He is, to date, the only person to call play-by-play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and the World Basketball League (WBL). His former broadcasting partners include Bob Cousy

Bob Cousy

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, Togo Palazzi

Togo Palazzi

Togo Anthony Palazzi is a retired American basketball player.A 6'4" forward/guard, Palazzi played at the College of the Holy Cross in the 1950s. He was captain of the Crusaders team that won the 1954 NIT Championship and was named MVP of the tournament.Palazzi was selected by the Boston Celtics...

, Upton Bell

Upton Bell

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, Gino Cappelletti

Gino Cappelletti

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, Gordie Lockbaum, Gary Tanguay and Greg Dickerson

Greg Dickerson

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.

Fouracre was suspended as host of the Holy Cross football and basketball shows on WGMC TV-3 in September 1998 after police charged him with assaulting a reporter and cameraman from the cable television station. The charges were dismissed agreement of the parties four months later.

Health

In January 2005, Fouracre underwent an angioplasty

Angioplasty

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 and had three stents installed in the major artery of his heart.

Honors

On May 5, 2007, Fouracre was inducted into the Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of Fame. On October 11, 2008, Fouracre was inducted into the International Candlepin Bowling Hall of Fame.