Posted by Mike Ruffone on January 20, 2022, 6:37 pm
Jim O'Donnell: "Even when Grobstein had no other place to go, Chicago sports radio had to take him in"
THE LAUDATORY FAREWELLS to Les Grobstein are beginning to slow. All that have been broadcast and written have been well-deserved. A handful have touched magnificence in texture and tone. There is a marked degree of duty above discomfort in adding yet another. That's because it's about a colleague and chum of more than four decades who, even at age 69, bid adieu too soon. That sort of doorbell of fate rings far too close to home.