Abelardo Raidi

Abelardo Raidi (25 December 1914 to 27 January 2002) was a Venezuelan sportswriter and radio broadcaster, born in Valencia in Carabobo state. He began as a radio announcer and play-by-play sports broadcaster at several stations, then spent almost seven decades as a sports journalist in Caracas, first at El Universal and later at El Nacional, where he became sports editor and wrote the long running Thursday column Pantalla de los Jueves on boxing, golf and other sports and on entertainment personalities. He was a founding member of the Circle of Sports Journalists in Venezuela, won the National Journalism Award, served in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1970s, and gave his name to an award of the International Sports Press Association. He entered the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.