Tim McCarver's unparalleled baseball broadcasting career officially is over

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But St. Louis icon Tim McCarver plans to be on hand for Cardinals' season opener

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Congrats to life after baseball!.

It’s now official. One of the legendary careers in baseball broadcasting — all of sportscasting, for that matter — has ended. Tim McCarver, who was the television analyst for more World Series than anyone — 24 — and a fixture on the air for decades, is retired from the business.
The acknowledgement by McCarver, who spent the final six years of his unparalleled run in the booth covering the Cardinals for what now is Bally Sports Midwest, comes three seasons after he called his last game. In the interim, he had been in limbo during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think I’m happy about it,” he said of putting down the microphone. “I think that’s the best.”

McCarver, now 80, was at his best for decades and worked for all four major American commercial broadcast networks. ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox. You name it and he was on the call for the big games. His final fling on the national stage came in 2013, when he called the Cardinals-Red Sox World Series with Joe Buck — his partner for 18 years.

 

[TheBigA]

Interesting that McCarver is retiring at 80, but Jim Kaat is still working at age 83.

 

[Don CT]

Interesting that McCarver is retiring at 80, but Jim Kaat is still working at age 83.

Jim Kaat retired and then kept going.