September Lunch & Learn - Eli Gold

Eli Gold is best known as the radio voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team but has also announced ice hockey, NASCAR, arena football, and games for the NFL. Eli was the first play-by-play announcer for the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Blazers basketball team and he was there for six years. Eli also spent four years as the broadcaster for the Birmingham Barons baseball team. While he was working with the baseball team he was named the Southern League’s Broadcaster of the Year in 1983. He was also voted “Alabama Sportscaster of the Year” four times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriter Association. Gold currently resides in Birmingham, as well as Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina with his wife Claudette and daughter Elise.

Spotlight Member: Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism, Mary Statkewicz - Tuscaloosa Tourism & Sports, Jasmine Rainey - University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies, Leroy Hurt