It has been announced Kevin Calabro, who became a Northwestern staple by doing two decades of Sonics games, will now do Blazers games next season. It got me thinking about broadcasters that are associated with a specific sports team but moved on. How many of them became identified with a second team? And which ones flopped?
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Iconic sportscasters with different teams
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Harry Caray: St. Louis Browns & Cardinals, Oakland A's, Chicago White Sox and Cubs. Harry's only failure was in Oakland (1970).
Ernie Harwell: Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers. He was best known in Detroit.
Milo Hamilton: St. Louis Browns & Cardinals, Chicago White Sox & Cubs (twice), Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros. He was most successful in Atlanta and Houston.
Thom Brennaman: Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds. Successful with all three.
Joe McConnell: Chicago White Sox & Bears, Purdue University football and basketball. Successful with all three.
Red Barber: Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees. Famous with both NY teams.
Jon MIller: Baltimore Orioles, SF Giants, although he's best known for his ESPN work.
Hawk Harrelson: Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox. (In)famous in both cities.
Miller was also part of an excellent radio play-by-play team with Ken Coleman for the Boston Red Sox in the early '80s. A lot of fans were very upset when he left for the Orioles job, especially when he was replaced by whiny, humorless stat machine Joe Castiglione, who, defying all logic, continues to irritate Red Sox fans to this day.
McConnell had a long and varied career. He also did radio for the Minnesota Twins, the Vikings and the Indianapolis Colts at various times. So he may be different from the Harry Carays or the Jack Bucks, because he didn't stick around one place long enough to be remembered.
The ultimate "team-switcher" in this regard might be Paul Keels, who started out doing Michigan football and basketball, and eventually ended up doing games for...Ohio State.
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