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June 25, 1998
Sports announcer and analyst Jim Elder died of a heart attack. Elder, whose dry style and encyclopedic knowledge of baseball, football, and golf amassed a huge following during the last thirty-five years of the twentieth century, was sports director for KARN (earlier KARK) radio for most of those years, and he did the play-by-play broadcasts of the Arkansas Travelers professional baseball team for thirty-three years. He is buried in Crestlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Conway (Faulkner County).