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Roger B. Goss, former director of marketing for WBAL-Radio, dies

Roger B. Goss, former director of marketing for WBAL-Radio who had been a high school and college lacrosse star, died Aug. 29 of pulmonary complications at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Towson resident, who earlier lived in Joppa, was 81.

Roger Bailey Goss, son of George Bayliss “Bailey” Goss, noted 1940s and 1950s Baltimore TV and radio sports personality, and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Seleski Goss, a homemaker, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and raised on Old Pimlico Road in Mount Washington.

He was a member of the first class after St. Paul’s School moved to Brooklandville in 1952, and during his freshman year was selected for the first All-Maryland scholastic lacrosse team.