The man who became synonymous with broadcasting baseball and longevity in Hawaii ended up making the islands his home partly because they were between Japan and the continental U.S.

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Don Robbs, a Hawaii broadcasting icon for 50 years known by sports fans as the voice of University of Hawaii baseball for 40 of them, died today.