CHICAGO — Les Grobstein, a longtime Chicago sports activities radio reporter and speak present host who recorded Lee Elia’s well-known profanity-laced postgame rant about Cubs followers, has died.
He was 69. WSCR-AM reported Grobstein died Sunday at his house. No trigger was given.
Grobstein had been the station’s in a single day host since 2009. The spot suited him due to its dependence on callers and his willingness to hear and have interaction hardcore followers in prolonged discussions. “The Grobber” additionally had an encyclopedic data of Chicago sports activities.
He was at Wrigley Subject on April 29, 1983, when Elia — then the Cubs supervisor — went off on the group’s followers following a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The group threw rubbish at Keith Moreland and Larry Bowa as they made their manner from the dugout to the clubhouse afterward.
The 4-3 loss dropped the Cubs to 5-14 and Elia’s frustration spilled out throughout a prolonged tirade, which Grobstein captured on his tape recorder. Crammed with profanities, Elia ranted the 85% of the “world is working. The opposite 15 come out right here.”
To today, clips of Elia’s salty rant are replayed on sports activities exhibits throughout when memorable tirades are talked about.
A Chicago native who attended Columbia Faculty, Grobstein began as a Northwestern basketball commentator in 1970 and established himself as a fixture on town’s sports activities scene over the following five-plus many years.
Grobstein known as video games for numerous groups and labored at a number of radio stations and phoned in scores and quotes for retailers together with The Related Press.
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