[8][9] After briefly attending the University of Minnesota, he joined the United States Navy during World War I.
[14] Hall witnessed Babe Ruth's famous "called shot" home run at Wrigley Field during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs.
[15] In 1934 Hall received one of the great honors of his career when he was elected president of the American Association of Baseball Writers.
With the Star and Tribune both owned by the Cowles family, Hall wrote a sports column for both newspapers until 1960.
[18] He gave up his Star and Tribune sports columns to become the full-time television and radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Twins, beginning with the 1961 season.
[5][22] But Hall's impassioned description of events gave listeners the impression he was watching the game in person.
[28] According to Sid Hartman, "Airplane pilots would report that, flying over the Minnesota prairie, they could tell when it was 10:30 P.M. That was when the 'CCO news was over and the lights in all the farm houses would go out.
[10][28][29] When Wolff left in 1962 to cover NBC's national baseball game of the week, Herb Carneal joined the Hall and Scott broadcast team.
When Scott left to become the lead NFL announcer for CBS television, Merle Harmon joined the Hall–Carneal broadcast team.
"[31] A cigar smoker, Hall accidentally set his sport coat on fire during a 1968 Twins broadcast at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
[5] Jerry Zimmerman, the Twins catcher, said afterwards, "Halsey's the only man I know who can turn a sports coat into a blazer.
[33] Upon her mother's death, Sula moved to North Dakota to live with her sister, Katie Marcks.
as a home run exclamation on WCCO radio long before Harry Caray and Phil Rizzuto used it.
[5][40] Hall also originated the practice of adding "Golden" before "Gophers" when describing the University of Minnesota's football and basketball teams.
[41][42] Hall was inspired by the golden uniforms the Gopher football team adopted under Coach Bernie Bierman in the 1930s.
[10] As his biographer Stew Thornley explained, "Halsey Hall was an institution" for Minnesota sports fans.