Career
Mercer was best known as a play-by-play radio announcer for baseball, football, basketball and wrestling. He was also a news reporter for KRLD covering the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963. He and fellow reporters George Phenix, Wes Wise and Bob Huffaker wrote When the News Went Live about their experiences during that time. Mercer also wrote Play-by-Play: Tales from a Sportscasting Insider about his experiences in sportscasting. Mercer also had a stint during the 1980s as sports anchor for KVIL morning host Ron Chapman, and spent over 35 years teaching new generations of sports broadcasters in the University of North Texas Radio/TV Department .
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