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Sports announcers covering diffrent sports?

onairb2014 said:
Drysdale did pre and postgame interviews for the final game of the ALCS at Fenway Park, in his last assignment for ABC. He did p-x-p for the network's Sunday afternoon games, which aired until July, when 'Monday Night Baseball' began. (Michaels did the main Sunday game, usually with Jim Palmer, while Drysdale and Johnny Bench did the backup contests). Keith Jackson(usually working with McCarver) did the # 2 Monday night games. Bench took a week off in June(with Steve Busby filling in), and also worked one game with Michaels as the networks switched the announcer pairings. Drysdale worked the All-Star game as an interviewer, and did not resurface til the playoffs. Bench simply disappeared, ultimately going to CBS radio.

Although Michaels, Palmer and McCarver had done the '85 World Series together, ABC did not team them on a regular basis on 'MNB' until 1988(after three 'experiments' in 1987).
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But it would had made more sense to have Drysdale do the NLCS with McCarver, and let Jackson do CFB instead.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
Lampley is also unique in that during what would be considered the "prime" of his sportscasting career, he also did news anchoring for a few years at KCBS-TV (late '80s-early '90s), alongside his then-wife Bree Walker and Keith Olbermann (who was KCBS's main sports anchor while Jim Hill was doing his five-year sabbatical over at KABC-TV).

Kinda along those same lines, KIRO-TV lead news anchor Steve Raible is also the radio voice of the Seattle Seahawks, although he was previously the color analyst prior to moving over to PxP.
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Was there a time when Lampley was doing NFC games on CBS with Ken Stalber, and doing the news for KCBS with his then-wife Bree Walker? He seemed to do a lot of Rams games then.
 
danderson6500 said:
But it would had made more sense to have Drysdale do the NLCS with McCarver, and let Jackson do CFB instead.
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Recall seeing a wire service story in which Drysdale said in August of '86 that he'd been told shortly after the ASG that he would not be used again that season. I don't know if he was present for any other ALCS games. They wouldn't have used Jackson on MNB in '86 if they did not intend to use him for the playoffs.(Jackson returned to baseball in '86, after the network talked him out of retiring following the Sugar Bowl).
 
I do remember Dan Dierdorf doing the "Superstars" event on "Wide World" in the early 90s. One year Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf did that event. NBC had Merlin Olsen doing it in 1985 on play by play, before they got Don Criqui to do it the next year.
 
onairb2014 said:
Drysdale did pre and postgame interviews for the final game of the ALCS at Fenway Park, in his last assignment for ABC. He did p-x-p for the network's Sunday afternoon games, which aired until July, when 'Monday Night Baseball' began. (Michaels did the main Sunday game, usually with Jim Palmer, while Drysdale and Johnny Bench did the backup contests). Keith Jackson(usually working with McCarver) did the # 2 Monday night games. Bench took a week off in June(with Steve Busby filling in), and also worked one game with Michaels as the networks switched the announcer pairings. Drysdale worked the All-Star game as an interviewer, and did not resurface til the playoffs. Bench simply disappeared, ultimately going to CBS radio.

Although Michaels, Palmer and McCarver had done the '85 World Series together, ABC did not team them on a regular basis on 'MNB' until 1988(after three 'experiments' in 1987).
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I remember that sometimes in 87, Michaels and Palmer would do the "A" game and Gary Bender would do the "B" game with McCarver. Bender seemed to do a lot of NL games that year.
 
CTListener said:
I forgot about Charley Steiner, who was fantastic on ESPN boxing. But he had his eyes on bigger things and wound up as a baseball p-b-p guy for the Yankees, then the /Dodgers.
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Steiner has mentioned in interviews the Tyson-Holyfield "ear biting" bout was the final straw, that boxing was becoming less and less possible to take seriously with events like that.
 
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What about local broadcasters doing multiple sports?
Kevin Calabaro, longtime and locally beloved Sonics play-by-play man, did the same during the Seattle Sounders' first season. Even he admitted he didn't know that much about soccer. Not surprisingly, he only lasted one year and was replaced by veteran soccer announcers.
Bob Robertson, who did Washington State football for over 50 years, has also done sports play-by-play for Tacoma stations. He's been on KHHO (850 AM) doing occasional Tacoma Rainers baseball, and even done ladies' college basketball for KLAY (1180 AM).
 
onairb2014 said:
Bender was so forgettable on baseball, it slipped my mind going into the 1988 season that he'd even worked for ABC in 1987!
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Have to agree about Bender being bad on baseball; he was more of a college football guy, and it showed like during the 88 ALCS. I got fed up with Bender's call that i switched during game 1 to the CBS Radio broadcast with Dick Stockton on WSPA 950 AM out of Spartanburg while watching ABC's pictures on WLOS/13. I began doing that for MNF as well and also for some Sunday football games too(couldn't stand the lower level announcers CBS used for Falcons games sometimes.)
 
Personally, the only time i can remember Bender on 'MNB' was the Yankees-Athletics game on Memorial Day of 88, because that game was shown because the Dodgers-Mets game was delayed long enough for ABC to go with the game in Oakland.
 
I seem to remember Charlie Jones covering a lot of stuff for NBC. Did he do any baseball 'GOTW' telecasts(most likely backup with Tony Kubek, behind Vin and Joe)?
 
danderson6500 said:
I seem to remember Charlie Jones covering a lot of stuff for NBC. Did he do any baseball 'GOTW' telecasts(most likely backup with Tony Kubek, behind Vin and Joe)?
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NBC began doing occasional 'GOTW' doubleheaders in 1977, and Jones was used every once in a while on those weeks. More often, they used Monte Moore, later Dick Enberg, and eventually, Jay Randolph. Jones did a number of games in 1982, when NBC was still looking for a permanent # 2 play by play guy, and was experimenting with announcers like Bob Costas, Sal Bando, and even Tim McCarver, who teamed with Jones on some 'C' games.
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ja27l4Y_A8

Chris Schenkel the ABC Play by play announcer for Bowling. I didn't realize he did other sports too like Football, Golf, Gymnastics and Boxing.
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He committed a classic faux pas doing football. Calling a New York Giants game at Yankee Stadium, he exclaimed “Ladies and gentlemen, Del Shofner has just faked Claude Crabb out of his jock!” The jock (strap) was something one did not mention on television during those years.
 
onairb2014 said:
NBC began doing occasional 'GOTW' doubleheaders in 1977, and Jones was used every once in a while on those weeks. More often, they used Monte Moore, later Dick Enberg, and eventually, Jay Randolph. Jones did a number of games in 1982, when NBC was still looking for a permanent # 2 play by play guy, and was experimenting with announcers like Bob Costas, Sal Bando, and even Tim McCarver, who teamed with Jones on some 'C' games.
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Schenkel's moving to ABC was due in part to a promise he got from Roone Arledge that he'd be doing football in another year. Schenkel called College games for a long time and was the lead play by play guy from 1966-1973 and then did regional games for a number of years after that.
 
Did ABC have anyone else on their staff besides Gary Bender to do the "B" 'MNB' games in 87? Off the top of my head, they had Jim Lampley, Al Trautwig, Corey McPherrin and Jack Whitaker. I tihnk Bender was signed by ABC after the NCAA Tournament that year, was ABC planning to use Lampley that year on baseball?
 
onairb2014 said:
NBC began doing occasional 'GOTW' doubleheaders in 1977, and Jones was used every once in a while on those weeks. More often, they used Monte Moore, later Dick Enberg, and eventually, Jay Randolph. Jones did a number of games in 1982, when NBC was still looking for a permanent # 2 play by play guy, and was experimenting with announcers like Bob Costas, Sal Bando, and even Tim McCarver, who teamed with Jones on some 'C' games.
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Jay Randolph sometimes worked with Kubek, like when Costas was getting ready for the 88 Olympics.
 
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