Word of the new play-by-play hire for Celtics broadcasts on the cable television channel Prism didn’t steal the headlines in the Nov. 1, 1981, editions of the Globe.
The news warranted 31 words in the second deck of the Sports Log on Page 83: Mike Gorman will join color commentator Tommy Heinsohn as play-by-play man for the Celtics on the New England Prime Cable Network. Gorman is currently sports director of Ch. 12 in Providence.
Gorman was 23 days shy of his 36th birthday. Cable television was in its fledgling stage, and who would choose to pay for television anyway?