PRAIRIE GROVE — Prairie Grove turned out Tuesday to celebrate the life of Hank French.
The memorial service should have been carried live on the radio by Sports Talk with Bo Mattingly. It would have provided perspective for everyone who had listened to Hammerin' Hank for the last 20 years.
I went to the service to pay my respect to Hank, one of the grand legends of Arkansas sports talk radio. Dubbed Hammerin' Hank by Chuck Barrett in the early days of his Sports Wrap show, French was well known in Prairie Grove.