They Call My Dad the General: Cindy Keiter performing at Seto Hall
Cindy Keiter Reilly will perform her one-woman multimedia show that reveals what life was like away from the diamond for one of the game’s greatest broadcasters, her father Les Keiter. For a generation of sports fans, Les Keiter was the most trusted voice in radio and television, calling some of the past century’s defining boxing matches and pioneering the baseball re-create, where, alone in a studio with only game stats and a microphone, he created the atmosphere of a live game with just his voice and minimal sound effects.
Cindy is in Hawaii, the family’s home for three decades, to offer a hilarious and moving tribute about his accomplished career, the disappointments each have experienced and how they overcame life’s losses.
Using archival footage and photos of sports greats Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, and Floyd Patterson among others, THEY CALL MY DAD THE GENERAL follows the Keiter family’s journey from New York, where Les was the announcer for both the football and baseball New York Giants and the New York Knicks, to Philadelphia, where he served as sports director of WFIL-TV, to Hawaii, where he earned the nickname The General and served as the sports director at KHON-TV and the voice of the Triple-A baseball team The Islanders. Why, at the height of his game, did Les Keiter leave sports Meccas New York and Philadelphia behind for Hawaii? How did Les and Cindy recreate their own lives following setbacks? What was it like for Cindy to share her famous father with the whole world?
Its sure to be an incredible show… and its FREE! The show will begin at 3:00pm in Seto Hall.
[Photo: Star Bulletin]