Favorite Broadcasters when you were young?

[Phil68]

Broadcasters were like family for me from age 7 through my early 20's.
I loved Jack Brickhouse, Jim Piersall and Harry Caray in Chicago. They were like immediate family. Then, for the holidays my uncles would show up...Tony Kubek, Joe Garagiola, Vin Scully. I loved them. Then there was "uncle Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell"...they only visited when it was a big event so it was exciting. They all sounded different, delivered different and it was great. Broadcasters all sound alike the last 20 years. Rarely enlightening and never interesting. Steve Stone is an amazing color guy and I always liked Tim McCarver as a class-act.
Who did you guys like?

[jayshum]

For me, there was nothing better than listening to Richie Ashburn and Harry Kalas when watching the Phillies.

[gonefishin]

I guess it depends on your age, but Dizzy Dean is at the top of my list with Jerry Coleman coming in 2d.

[Phil68]

Originally Posted by gonefishin

I guess it depends on your age, but Dizzy Dean is at the top of my list with Jerry Coleman coming in 2d.

Wish I could've listened to Dizzy Dean.

Johnny Most was SO exciting! That dude was incredible energy. Neil Funk had that same vibe. He was the best basketball announcer I ever heard. It helped that I listened to those guys when the Celtics were...the Celtics and Jordan was leading the Bulls through their run.

[gonefishin]

I guess it depends on your age, but Dizzy Dean is at the top of my list with Jerry Coleman coming in 2d.

[Beercan collector]

Jack Buck , Mike Shannon , Jay Randolph

[Phil68]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

Jack Buck , Mike Shannon , Jay Randolph

Cardinal fans have been telling me how great those guys were for years!

[Beercan collector]

I miss Mike calling every flying out as though it was a home run .
And by the sixth or seventh inning he’s talking about a cold Budweiser and then his voice starts to slur ,
And I’m not being mean I actually enjoyed it

[DHogan]

Johnny Most for the Boston Celtics. He would get so excited about a game, that you couldn't understand what he was saying.

[nolemmings]

Halsey Hall.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/halsey-hall/

[luckcrosson]

Jerry Coleman,Don Drysdale very nice and approaching people tho I only meet Don Drysdale then it was nice meeting him ...

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by luckcrosson

Jerry Coleman,Don Drysdale very nice and approaching people tho I only meet Don Drysdale when I was small then it was nice meeting him ...

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[luckcrosson]

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[Beercan collector]

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[bradmar48]

I grew up with Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese and the game of the week brought to you by Falstaff beer. Red Barber was another favorite

[mortimer brewster]

Hockey broadcasters from the 1970's are a special breed. Most of them have a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

In Buffalo we were fortunate to have two Hall-of-Famers, Ted Darling and Rick Jeanneret.

My favorite though was Dan Kelly. Not only the voice of the Blues, but the voice of the Game of the Week on CBS in the late 1960's through the early 1970's. He also was the voice of the NHL game of the week in the late 1970's on the Hughes Sports network.

Kelly was so dedicated that he would broadcast the afternoon nationally televised game of the week, hop on a plane and arrive in St. Louis mid game to relieve a young Bob Costas in the KMOX booth.

Kelly and Gus Kyle were great.

Kelly was also an outstanding baseball and football announcer on KMOX.

If you listen to a NHL broadcast today, the broadcasters have a conversational type of PBP. The action is very hard to follow, espscially if the games are simulcast.