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Gold was born in December 1953 in Brooklyn, New York . He began his broadcasting career in 1972 as a weekend sports reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System . His first specialty was announcing Ice Hockey for the Eastern , North American , Southern , American , Central , and the National Hockey League s. In the NHL, Gold announced games for the Saint Louis Blues . He moved to Birmingham, Alabama to broadcast the Birmingham Bulls hockey team of the World Hockey Association . He created Birmingham's first local sports call-in show, ''Calling All Sports'' on WERC-AM which became a staple of Birmingham sports radio for 20 years. He eventually rose to the position of Sports Director for that station's television affiliate, WBRC where he anchored evening news sports segments and hosted "Sports Talk with Eli", a weekly call-in show. From 2002 to 2004, he hosted a daily sports talk show also called ''Calling All Sports'' on WJOX-AM in Birmingham . Gold has also performed announcing duties for the Birmingham Barons AA Baseball team and the University Of Alabama At Birmingham Blazers basketball team. He has been voted "Alabama Sportscaster of the Year" four times by the National Sportscasters And Sportswriters Association . He has also won the same honor from the Associated Press and United Press International . In addition, Gold has worked with MRN Radio and TNN Motorsports as a lap-by-lap announcer of NASCAR races. He still, from time to time, can be heard on MRN's NASCAR broadcasts. BOOKS REFERENCES
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