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The 25 Best Major League Baseball Play-By-Play Broadcasters
Most are from TV and only a few from radio, where baseball broadcasting actually began. Names like Vin Scully and Ernie Harwell are on the list, along with Joe Garagiola. But I was pleased to see relative newcomer Dan Shulman be chosen, as well. I think he's going to be considered one of the greats someday.
I wish Jerry Howarth had made this list, but to be honest, I'm not sure how these icons were chosen and if the authors would have even heard him on the air. He could make even a blowout game sound exciting. I miss him every time I listen to a Jays' game on the radio.
The 25 Best Major League Baseball Play-By-Play Broadcasters
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I agree about Howarth, who was an excellent broadcaster without sounding like a homer. Never was a fan of Joe Garagiola, who was often locked in his own world of "today's baseball players are nowhere near as good as they were when I played."
A name I would have liked to see was Tony Kubek, who broadcast with Curt Gowdy for many years on NBC's Game of the Week. He also worked for CTV doing Blue Jays games in the early years of the franchise before heading to New York to broadcast Yankees' games. He clashed frequently with George Steinbrenner and eventually left the game in 1994, saying he hated "the greed, the nastiness" of baseball at that time.
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Howarth also really did his research. He knew something interesting about almost every player, Blue Jay or otherwise, but he wouldn't just drop these nuggets to show you how much he knew. If it was appropriate, he'd tell you. If not, maybe it would come up during another game.
Plus the one thing I'll never, ever forget is how - even though it was his "inning" - he let Tom Cheek call the final three outs during that first Blue Jays World Series win vs. Atlanta because his partner had been with the team since the beginning and he wanted to give him that honour.
What a class act.
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I am aware of 16 of these broadcasters.