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A sports commentator by trade, he belonged to a profession that depended on presence, timing, and an ability to translate the energy of competition into language that listeners and viewers could follow and feel.\n\nScott died on March 23, 1998, in a life that had opened in Johnstown and closed nearly seventy-nine years later. What the record preserves most firmly is his occupation: he was a sports commentator, and that work was the axis around which his public life turned. 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