SPORTSCASTER Les Grobstein was found dead on Sunday afternoon in his Elk Grove Village home. Grobstein was 69 years old and had been a Chicago radio sportscaster for more than 50 years. Les ...

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Scott Grobstein remembers calling in to his father’s radio show. The Illinois high school English teacher grew up with a dad, Les Grobstein, who had a famous voice and a career that ended with a ...

Les Grobstein, known in Chicago as The Grobber, passed away at 69 on Sunday after a 50-plus year career on the radio.

Les Grobstein had worked in the Chicago radio scene for five-plus decades, most recently hosting overnights on 670 The Score since 2009.

(WSCR) This week's Crap of the Week goes out to Les Grobstein. This, from Joe B. Sunday night, after the Super Bowl, Les joked with a caller who speculated the reason for the power outage. "People ...

And while Les Grobstein was well-known locally, he probably wasn’t famous enough to make his microphone a must-have item for sports collectors. But who knows?

Les Grobstein’s death Sunday at age 69 created a flood of “Grobber” stories from his family, friends and radio colleagues. The storytelling continued Thursday at a funeral service for ...

Very sad to hear that Chicago sports radio legend Les Grobstein has died. He was just 69. Les is most famous, of course, for recording Lee Elia’s profanity-laced 1983 tirade against Cubs fans ...

Elia’s professional baseball career spanned more than 50 years as a player, coach, manager and executive, but his name will ...

Les Grobstein, a legendary figure among the Chicago sports broadcasting community, has died. He was 69. Grobstein, known to his 670 The Score (WSCR 670-AM) radio listeners as “The Grobber ...

Remembering Les Grobstein — and the Lee Elia rant The radio icon’s death brings back memories of the former Cubs manager’s tirade in 1983 and a column-that-wasn’t two decades later.