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(June 2023)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> The following article details the history of <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">Major League Baseball on NBC</a>, the broadcast of <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> games on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> television network. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1930s">1930s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1930s">edit</a>]</div> NBC television's relationship with <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> technically dates back to August 26, 1939.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> It was on that date that on <a href="/wiki/W2XBS" class="mw-redirect" title="W2XBS">W2XBS</a> (an experimental television station in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> which would ultimately become what is now NBC's <a href="/wiki/Flagship_(broadcasting)" title="Flagship (broadcasting)">flagship television station</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBC-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBC-TV">WNBC</a>), the first-ever Major League Baseball game was televised. With <a href="/wiki/Red_Barber" title="Red Barber">Red Barber</a> announcing, the <a href="/wiki/1939_Brooklyn_Dodgers_season" title="1939 Brooklyn Dodgers season">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1939_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1939 Cincinnati Reds season">Cincinnati Reds</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> played a <a href="/wiki/Doubleheader_(baseball)" title="Doubleheader (baseball)">doubleheader</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ebbets_Field" title="Ebbets Field">Ebbets Field</a>. The Reds won the first game 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second, 6–1. Barber called the game without the benefit of a monitor and with only two cameras capturing the game. One camera was on Barber and the other was behind the plate. Barber had to guess from which light was on and where it pointed. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940s">1940s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1940s">edit</a>]</div> By 1947, television sets, most with five and seven-inch screens, were selling almost as fast as they could be produced. Because of this, Major League teams began televising games and attracted a whole new audience into ballparks in the process. People who had only casually followed baseball began going to the games in person. In 1948, Major League Baseball's total attendance reached a record high of 21 million. 1947<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> also saw the first <a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Series_broadcasters" title="List of World Series broadcasters">televised World Series</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> The games were broadcast in the <a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="List of television stations in New York">New York City area</a> by NBC's <a href="/wiki/WNBC" title="WNBC">WNBT</a>, <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a>'s <a href="/wiki/WCBS-TV" title="WCBS-TV">WCBS-TV</a> and <a href="/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network" title="DuMont Television Network">DuMont</a>'s <a href="/wiki/WNYW-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WNYW-TV">WABD</a> and sponsored by <a href="/wiki/The_Gillette_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gillette Company">Gillette</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford</a>. The 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million viewers, becoming television's first mass audience. In addition to New York City, live coverage of the Series was also seen on <a href="/wiki/WRGB" title="WRGB">WRGB</a> in <a href="/wiki/Schenectady,_New_York" title="Schenectady, New York">Schenectady</a>/<a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany</a> (now a CBS affiliate), <a href="/wiki/KYW-TV" title="KYW-TV">WPTZ</a> (now CBS-owned KYW-TV) in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/WMAR-TV" title="WMAR-TV">WMAR-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> and <a href="/wiki/WTTG" title="WTTG">WTTG</a> in Washington, D.C. In 1948 and 1949, the World Series would be carried on the aforementioned stations, as well as on <a href="/wiki/WBZ-TV" title="WBZ-TV">WBZ-TV</a> and <a href="/wiki/WHDH_(TV)" title="WHDH (TV)">WNAC-TV</a> (now WHDH-TV) in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/WTNH" title="WTNH">WNHC-TV</a> (now WTNH) in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> and <a href="/wiki/WTVR-TV" title="WTVR-TV">WTVR-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>. In 1949, the World Series was also seen live in other Northeastern and Midwestern cities (<a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">Harrisburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York" title="Syracuse, New York">Syracuse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erie,_Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania">Erie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Columbus,_Ohio" title="Columbus, Ohio">Columbus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati" title="Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio" title="Dayton, Ohio">Dayton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toledo,_Ohio" title="Toledo, Ohio">Toledo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a>) that had been hooked up to network lines over the previous year. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950s">1950s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1950s">edit</a>]</div> In 1950, the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_Mutual" title="Major League Baseball on Mutual">Mutual Broadcasting System</a> acquired the television as well as radio broadcast rights to the World Series and All-Star Game for the next six years. <a href="/wiki/Mutual_Broadcasting_System" title="Mutual Broadcasting System">Mutual</a> may have been reindulging in dreams of becoming a television network or simply taking advantage of a long-standing business relationship; in either case, the broadcast rights were sold to NBC in time for the following season's games at an enormous profit. By <a href="/wiki/1950_World_Series" title="1950 World Series">1950</a>, World Series games could be seen in most of the country,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> but not all. 1950 also marked the first time that there was an exclusive network television broadcaster (NBC). West Coast viewers finally saw live major league games on television during the 1951 postseason. NBC aired the second and third games of the <a href="/wiki/1951_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1951 National League tie-breaker series">1951 National League tie-breaker series</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1951_Brooklyn_Dodgers_season" title="1951 Brooklyn Dodgers season">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1951_New_York_Giants_(MLB)_season" title="1951 New York Giants (MLB) season">New York Giants</a>, necessitated by the teams' finishing the regular season in a tie for first place. The three-game <a href="/wiki/Pennant_playoff" class="mw-redirect" title="Pennant playoff">pennant playoff</a>, which featured the first baseball games televised live from coast to coast (with CBS airing the first game), culminated on October 3 when the Giants won the third and deciding game by the score of 5–4 (off <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Thomson" title="Bobby Thomson">Bobby Thomson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)" title="Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)">home run</a>). <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Harwell" title="Ernie Harwell">Ernie Harwell</a> called the game for Giants television flagship <a href="/wiki/WPIX" title="WPIX">WPIX</a> – the <a href="/wiki/Independent_station_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent station (North America)">independent station</a>'s broadcast was simulcast nationally by NBC – and his description of the home run was a simple shout of "It's gone!" almost at the moment Thomson's bat struck <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Branca" title="Ralph Branca">Ralph Branca</a>'s pitch. Harwell later admitted he had probably called it "too soon", but fortunately for him, the call proved to be correct. "And then", Harwell recalled, "the pictures took over."<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> The 1951 playoff between Brooklyn and the New York Giants and that year's <a href="/wiki/1951_World_Series" title="1951 World Series">World Series</a> were the first major league baseball games telecast live from <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">coast</a>-to-<a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">coast</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> to <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">coast</a>;<a href="#cite_note-TVSignals-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> transcontinental network transmission lines had been completed and activated in September, in-time for the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Peace_Treaty_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese Peace Treaty Conference">Japanese Peace Treaty Conference</a> in San Francisco and the start of the 1951–52 television season. The <a href="/wiki/1952_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1952 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1952 All-Star Game</a> at <a href="/wiki/Shibe_Park" title="Shibe Park">Shibe Park</a> in Philadelphia was the first nationally televised All-Star Game, but it was shortened due to rain. On January 31, 1953, the <a href="/wiki/1953_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1953 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a>, <a href="/wiki/1953_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1953 Cleveland Indians season">Cleveland Indians</a> and <a href="/wiki/1953_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1953 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a> joined forces against <a href="/wiki/1953_St._Louis_Browns_season" title="1953 St. Louis Browns season">St. Louis Browns</a> owner <a href="/wiki/Bill_Veeck" title="Bill Veeck">Bill Veeck</a>. The respective franchises tried to force the Browns to play afternoon games in an attempt to avoid having to share television revenues. A month later, Major League Baseball owners received a warning from Senator <a href="/wiki/Edwin_C._Johnson" title="Edwin C. Johnson">Edwin Johnson</a> about nationally televising their games. Johnson's theory was that nationally televising baseball games would be a threat to the survival of <a href="/wiki/Minor_league_baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor league baseball">minor league baseball</a>. The owners ignored Johnson, as the games on NBC were gaining a large and loyal following. Another first for NBC during this period was the first <a href="/wiki/Color_television" title="Color television">color telecast</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> of a World Series, the 1955 matchup between the <a href="/wiki/1955_Brooklyn_Dodgers_season" title="1955 Brooklyn Dodgers season">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1955_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1955 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a>. <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> announcer <a href="/wiki/Bob_Elson" title="Bob Elson">Bob Elson</a> missed a chance to call the <a href="/wiki/1959_World_Series" title="1959 World Series">1959 World Series</a> – the <a href="/wiki/1959_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1959 Chicago White Sox season">White Sox</a>' first since 1919, and Elson's first since 1943 – on NBC because the then head of <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a>, Tom Gallery (who incidentally, grew up on the same block as Elson) did not like him.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Elson was, however, allowed to call the Series on the White Sox' radio flagship, <a href="/wiki/WCFL_(AM)" class="mw-redirect" title="WCFL (AM)">WCFL</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NBC_begins_airing_the_Game_of_the_Week_(1957–65)">NBC begins airing the Game of the Week (1957–65)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: NBC begins airing the Game of the Week (1957–65)">edit</a>]</div> In 1957,<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> NBC started airing weekend <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Game of the Week</a> telecasts<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> (Sunday telecasts were added in 1959) with <a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Nelson" title="Lindsey Nelson">Lindsey Nelson</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leo_Durocher" title="Leo Durocher">Leo Durocher</a> calling the action. During this period, NBC (as rival <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS" title="Major League Baseball on CBS">CBS</a> had the rights to broadcast at least eight teams) typically broadcast from <a href="/wiki/1957_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1957 Pittsburgh Pirates season">Pittsburgh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field" title="Forbes Field">Forbes Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/1957_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1957 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a> or <a href="/wiki/1957_Milwaukee_Braves_season" title="1957 Milwaukee Braves season">Milwaukee</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Stadium" title="Milwaukee County Stadium">County Stadium</a>. NBC purchased the rights to 11 <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a> games, 11 <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> games, two <a href="/wiki/1957_Washington_Senators_season" title="1957 Washington Senators season">Washington Senators</a> games, and two <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> games. Leo Durocher was succeeded as <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> by <a href="/wiki/Fred_Haney" title="Fred Haney">Fred Haney</a> in 1960, and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola" title="Joe Garagiola">Joe Garagiola</a> in 1961, while <a href="/wiki/Bob_Wolff" title="Bob Wolff">Bob Wolff</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> replaced Nelson on <a href="/wiki/Play-by-play" class="mw-redirect" title="Play-by-play">play-by-play</a> in 1962. From 1958 to 1960,<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> NBC aired a special regional feed of its games in the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">southeast</a>, where the network had a different sponsor (such as <a href="/wiki/National_Bohemian" title="National Bohemian">National Bohemian</a> beer) than for the rest of the country. This feed featured its own announcing team, with <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Thompson" title="Chuck Thompson">Chuck Thompson</a> calling the games with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Veeck" title="Bill Veeck">Bill Veeck</a> (1958) and <a href="/wiki/Al_Rosen" title="Al Rosen">Al Rosen</a> (1959–60). NBC never had a true backup game until 1966, when the network got exclusivity for the Game of the Week. In the process, NBC brought in <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Reese" title="Pee Wee Reese">Pee Wee Reese</a> for the primary game, and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a> for the alternate game (which was always shown in the markets of teams playing in the primary game). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960–65">1960–65</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1960–65">edit</a>]</div> As previously mentioned, in 1961, NBC hired Joe Garagiola to be their Major League Baseball color commentator. The following year, Bob Wolff began working play-by-play. "You work your side of the street [interviewing players]", said Garagiola to Wolff "and I'll work mine." Wolff liked Garagiola's pizazz as he would say things like "the guy stapled him to the bag" or that a runner is "smilin' like he swallowed a banana peel." Also in 1962, NBC broadcast the <a href="/wiki/1962_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1962 National League tie-breaker series">National League tie-breaker series</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1962_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1962 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/1962_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1962 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. Bob Wolff and <a href="/wiki/George_Kell" title="George Kell">George Kell</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> were the announcers for the playoff series. Wolff also hosted the <a href="/wiki/Pre-game_show" title="Pre-game show">pre-game shows</a> for NBC's <a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Series_broadcasters" title="List of World Series broadcasters">World Series coverage</a> from 1962 to 1965. Prior to the mid-1970s, <a href="/wiki/Television_network" class="mw-redirect" title="Television network">television networks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Television_station" title="Television station">stations</a> generally did not preserve telecasts of sporting events, choosing instead to <a href="/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast#Wiping" title="Lost television broadcast">tape over them</a>. As a result, the broadcasts of six of the seven <a href="/wiki/1960_World_Series" title="1960 World Series">1960 World Series</a> games are no longer known to exist. The lone exception is a <a href="/wiki/Black-and-white" title="Black-and-white">black-and-white</a> <a href="/wiki/Kinescope" title="Kinescope">kinescope</a> of the entire telecast of Game 7, which was discovered in a <a href="/wiki/Wine_cellar" title="Wine cellar">wine cellar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>'s home in <a href="/wiki/Hillsborough,_California" title="Hillsborough, California">Hillsborough, California</a> in December 2009.<a href="#cite_note-crosby-25">[25]</a> A part-owner of the <a href="/wiki/1960_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1960 Pittsburgh Pirates season">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>, who was too superstitious to watch the Series live, Crosby listened to the decisive contest with his wife <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Crosby" title="Kathryn Crosby">Kathryn</a> and two friends on a <a href="/wiki/Shortwave" class="mw-redirect" title="Shortwave">shortwave radio</a> in Paris, France. Wanting to watch the game at a later date only if the Pirates won, he arranged for a company to record it. After viewing the kinescope, he placed it in his wine cellar, where it went untouched for 49 years. It was finally found by Robert Bader, <a href="/wiki/Vice_president" title="Vice president">vice president</a> of marketing and production for <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="Bing Crosby Enterprises">Bing Crosby Enterprises</a>, while looking through <a href="/wiki/Videotape" title="Videotape">videotapes</a> of Crosby's television specials which were to be transferred to <a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a>. The five-reel set is the only known complete copy of the historic match, which was originally broadcast in color.<a href="#cite_note-crosby-25">[25]</a> The NBC television announcers for the Series were <a href="/wiki/Bob_Prince" title="Bob Prince">Bob Prince</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mel_Allen" title="Mel Allen">Mel Allen</a>, the respective primary play-by-play voices for the Pirates and <a href="/wiki/1960_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1960 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a>. Prince called the first half of Game 7, while Allen did the latter portion.<a href="#cite_note-crosby-25">[25]</a> In contrast to preceding years, where NBC's World Series telecasts featured two announcers (usually one from each participating team) who split the play-by-play duties, each working his portion of the game by himself, in 1961, the network had <a href="/wiki/1961_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1961 New York Yankees season">Yankees</a> announcer Mel Allen handle all of the play-by-play on television (with <a href="/wiki/1961_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1961 Cincinnati Reds season">Reds</a> announcer <a href="/wiki/Waite_Hoyt" title="Waite Hoyt">Waite Hoyt</a> confined to radio) while Joe Garagiola<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> provided color commentary. This format would eventually become the standard form of presentation on World Series telecasts.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> In Week 3 of the <a href="/wiki/1961_NFL_season" title="1961 NFL season">1961 National Football League season</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1961_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1961 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore</a>-<a href="/wiki/1961_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="1961 Green Bay Packers season">Green Bay</a> game was televised locally to <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> on <a href="/wiki/WBAL-TV" title="WBAL-TV">WBAL 11</a>, an <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBC_television_affiliates_(by_U.S._state)" title="List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)">NBC affiliate</a>. Apparently if Baltimore viewers wanted to see the World Series, they would have had to choose between <a href="/wiki/WRC-TV" title="WRC-TV">WRC 4</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a> or <a href="/wiki/WGAL" title="WGAL">WGAL 8</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania" title="Lancaster, Pennsylvania">Lancaster, Pennsylvania</a>. There was no NFL telecast on NBC (who at the time broadcast <a href="/wiki/1961_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1961 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> and Colts games) due to coverage of Game 4 of the World Series. On July 13, 1963, NBC's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1963_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1963 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a>–<a href="/wiki/1963_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1963 Chicago White Sox season">Chicago White Sox</a> game from <a href="/wiki/Comiskey_Park" title="Comiskey Park">Comiskey Park</a> in Chicago was carried by <a href="/wiki/KCRA-TV" title="KCRA-TV">KCRA-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>, <a href="/wiki/KRNV-DT" title="KRNV-DT">KCRL</a> in <a href="/wiki/Reno,_Nevada" title="Reno, Nevada">Reno</a> and <a href="/wiki/KRCR-TV" title="KRCR-TV">KVIP-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Redding,_California" title="Redding, California">Redding</a> – however it was not televised in the San Francisco market on <a href="/wiki/KRON-TV" title="KRON-TV">KRON-TV</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> NBC's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1963_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1963 Cleveland Indians season">Cleveland Indians</a>-Tigers game at 11:30 a.m. the following day was also not broadcast by KRON. During the fourth and final game of the <a href="/wiki/1963_World_Series" title="1963 World Series">1963</a> World Series, <a href="/wiki/1963_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1963 New York Yankees season">Yankees</a> announcer Mel Allen was calling the top of the ninth inning for NBC when his voice gave out due to a bout of severe <a href="/wiki/Laryngitis" title="Laryngitis">laryngitis</a>, forcing <a href="/wiki/1963_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1963 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodgers</a> announcer <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a> (who had called the first four-and-a-half innings of the game per the network's usual setup) to resume play-by-play duties for the remainder of the game. After the Series <a href="/wiki/Daily_News_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)">New York Daily News</a> sportswriter <a href="/wiki/Dick_Young_(sportswriter)" title="Dick Young (sportswriter)">Dick Young</a> opined that Allen, the voice of the Yankees, had been stricken by "<a href="/wiki/Psychosomatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychosomatic">psychosomatic</a> laryngitis" caused by his team being swept.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> By 1964,<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> CBS' <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dizzy Dean</a> and Pee Wee Reese called games from <a href="/wiki/1964_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1964 New York Yankees season">Yankee Stadium</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1964 Chicago Cubs season">Wrigley Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1964 St. Louis Cardinals season">St. Louis</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1964 Philadelphia Phillies season">Philadelphia</a> and <a href="/wiki/1964_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="1964 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore</a>. New York got a US$550,000 payment of CBS' $895,000. Meanwhile, six clubs that exclusively played nationally televised games on NBC were paid $1.2 million. Also in <a href="/wiki/1964_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1964 Major League Baseball season">1964</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1964_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1964 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> made the <a href="/wiki/1964_World_Series" title="1964 World Series">World Series</a> for the 15th time in 18 years – however Mel Allen was not there. In September of that year, before the end of the season, the Yankees informed Allen that his contract with the team would not be renewed. In those days, the main announcers for the Series participants always called the World Series on NBC. Although Allen was therefore technically eligible to call the Series, Baseball Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Ford_C._Frick" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford C. Frick">Ford C. Frick</a> honored the Yankees' request to have <a href="/wiki/Phil_Rizzuto" title="Phil Rizzuto">Phil Rizzuto</a> join the Series crew instead. It was the first time Allen had missed a World Series for which the Yankees were eligible since <a href="/wiki/1943_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1943 New York Yankees season">1943</a>, and only the second World Series (not counting those missed during World War II) that he had missed since he began calling baseball games in 1938. On December 17, after much media speculation and many letters to the Yankees from fans disgruntled at Allen's absence from the Series, the Yankees issued a terse press release announcing Allen's firing; he was replaced by Joe Garagiola. NBC and <a href="/wiki/Movietone_News" title="Movietone News">Movietone</a> dropped him soon afterward. To this day, the Yankees have never given an explanation for Allen's sudden firing, and rumors abounded. Depending on the rumor, Allen was either <a href="/wiki/Homosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexual">homosexual</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoholic">alcoholic</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Drug_addict" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug addict">drug addict</a> or had a <a href="/wiki/Nervous_breakdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Nervous breakdown">nervous breakdown</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Voices-31">[31]</a> Allen's sexuality was sometimes a target in those more conservative days because he had not married (and never did). Years later, Allen told author <a href="/wiki/Curt_Smith_(author)" title="Curt Smith (author)">Curt Smith</a> that the Yankees had fired him under pressure from the team's longtime sponsor, <a href="/wiki/Ballantine_(brewery)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballantine (brewery)">Ballantine Beer</a>. According to Allen, he was fired as a cost-cutting move by Ballantine, which had been experiencing poor sales for years<a href="#cite_note-Voices-31">[31]</a> (it would eventually be sold in 1969). Smith, in his book Voices of Summer, also indicated that the medications Allen took in order to maintain his busy schedule may have affected his on-air performance (Stephen Borelli, another biographer, has also pointed out that Allen's heavy workload did not allow him time to take care of his health). In <a href="/wiki/1965_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1965 Major League Baseball season">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_ABC" title="Major League Baseball on ABC">ABC</a> brought forth such innovations<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> like isolated <a href="/wiki/Instant_replay" title="Instant replay">instant replay</a>, field microphones, and a separate camera for each base runner. After ABC's contract for the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Game of the Week</a> expired after a single season, NBC felt compelled to dramatically alter their own baseball coverage. So for NBC's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1965_World_Series" title="1965 World Series">1965 World Series</a>, it featured videotaped replays, prerecorded audio analysis from key players, and enhanced <a href="/wiki/Computer_animation" title="Computer animation">animated graphics</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Game_of_the_Week_exclusivity_era_(1966–89)">The Game of the Week exclusivity era (1966–89)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Game of the Week exclusivity era (1966–89)">edit</a>]</div> Until 1965<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> (when Major League Baseball made its first ever, league-wide regular-season network television deal with ABC), there was no league-wide national television package for regular season Major League Baseball games. As a result, teams, if they so desired, could sell the rights to the networks. Also prior to 1965, regular season Major League Baseball telecasts broadcast by networks had to be <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blacked-out</a> in cities with league franchises. More to the point, by around the year prior, thanks to <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball#Relocation_and_expansion" title="Major League Baseball">expansion</a> (in <a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft">1960</a> and <a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1961 Major League Baseball expansion draft">1961</a>), regular season MLB games shown on network television were blacked out in most major markets. However, the network Games of the Week, up until the late 1980s, still could not be seen in the two cities whose local teams were playing in each respective game. From 1965 until the late 1980s, networks would cover two Saturday afternoon games each week: one that went to most of the network (a "primary game"), and the second being seen only in the home markets of the two teams playing in the network's "primary" game. Although the "primary" game would not be televised in each team's home markets, <a href="/wiki/Historical_Major_League_Baseball_over-the-air_television_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical Major League Baseball over-the-air television broadcasters">local television rights-holders</a> in those cities were free to broadcast that game. The manner that this worked allowed, for instance, a network's two Saturday afternoon Games of the Week involving the <a href="/wiki/Yankees%E2%80%93Red_Sox_rivalry" title="Yankees–Red Sox rivalry">New York Yankees at the Boston Red Sox</a> serving as the primary game and <a href="/wiki/Cardinals%E2%80%93Cubs_rivalry" title="Cardinals–Cubs rivalry">St. Louis Cardinals at the Chicago Cubs</a> being the secondary game. The Yankees-Red Sox game would as a result, be seen everywhere except in New York City, Boston and possibly markets adjacent to those cities. Ultimately, those markets got the Cardinals-Cubs game instead. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s">1960s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1960s">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/1966_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1966 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a>, which, the year before, had played 21 Games of the Week for CBS, joined NBC's package in 1966. The new package under NBC called for 28 games, as compared to the 123 combined among three networks during the 1960s. On October 19, 1965, <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC</a> signed a three-year contract with Major League Baseball. As previously mentioned, the year before, Major League Baseball sold an exclusive league-wide television package for the rights to the Saturday-Sunday Game of the Week to ABC. NBC covered only the <a href="/wiki/1965_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> and <a href="/wiki/1965_World_Series" title="1965 World Series">World Series</a> in 1965. In addition, a previous deal limited CBS to covering only twelve weekends when its new subsidiary, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, played at home. As previously mentioned, before 1965, NBC aired a slate of Saturday afternoon games beginning in 1957. Under the new deal, NBC paid roughly US$6 million per year for the 25 Games of the Week,<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> $6.1 million for the <a href="/wiki/1967_World_Series" title="1967 World Series">1967 World Series</a> and <a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a>, and $6.5 million for the <a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">1968 World Series</a> and <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1968 All-Star Game</a>. This brought the total value of the contract (which included three Monday night telecasts such as a <a href="/wiki/Labor_Day" title="Labor Day">Labor Day</a> 1966 contest between the <a href="/wiki/1966_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1966 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/1966_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1966 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>) up to $30.6 million. On April 16, 1966, in New York City, about 50 baseball, network, and advertising officials discussed NBC's first year with the Game of the Week. New York could not get a primary match-up between the <a href="/wiki/1966_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1966 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1966_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1966 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> with Curt Gowdy and Pee Wee Reese calling the action because of local blackout rules. Instead, that market received a backup game (or "'B' game") featuring Tony Kubek and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a> calling a game between the <a href="/wiki/1966_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1966 Cincinnati Reds season">Cincinnati Reds</a> and <a href="/wiki/1966_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1966 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a>. That rule would be eliminated after the 1983 season. In replacing CBS, NBC traded a <a href="/wiki/Circus" title="Circus">circus</a> for a seminar. Reese said "Curt Gowdy was its guy (1966–75), and didn't want Dizzy Dean<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> – too overpowering. Curt was nice, but worried about mistakes. Diz and I just laughed." <a href="/wiki/Falstaff_Brewery" class="mw-redirect" title="Falstaff Brewery">Falstaff Brewery</a> hyped Dean as Gowdy in return said "I said, 'I can't do "<a href="/wiki/Wabash_Cannonball" title="Wabash Cannonball">Wabash Cannonball</a>." Our styles clash --" then came Pee Wee Reese. Gowdy added by saying about the pairing between him and Reese, "They figured he was fine with me, and they'd still have their boy." To many, baseball meant CBS's 1955–64 Game of the Week thoroughbred. A year later, NBC bought <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>'s variant of a mule so to speak. "We had the Series and All-Star Game. 1966–1968's Game meant exclusivity", said NBC Sports head Carl Lindemann, who added that "[Colleague] <a href="/wiki/Chet_Simmons" title="Chet Simmons">Chet Simmons</a> and liked him [Gowdy] with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a>" also, getting two network sports for the price of one. As his analyst, Gowdy wanted his friend <a href="/wiki/Ted_Williams" title="Ted Williams">Ted Williams</a>. NBC's lead sponsor, <a href="/wiki/Chrysler_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Chrysler Corporation">Chrysler</a> declined the idea when Williams, a <a href="/wiki/Sears_Holdings_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Holdings Corporation">Sears</a> spokesman, was pictured putting stuff in a Ford truck. Before 1966, local announcers exclusively called the World Series. Typically, the <a href="/wiki/Gillette_Cavalcade_of_Sports" title="Gillette Cavalcade of Sports">Gillette Company</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a> and NBC television would choose the announcers, who would represent each of the teams that were in the World Series for the respective year. For the <a href="/wiki/1966_World_Series" title="1966 World Series">1966 World Series</a>, Curt Gowdy<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> called half of each game before ceding the microphone to Vin Scully in Los Angeles, and <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Thompson" title="Chuck Thompson">Chuck Thompson</a> in Baltimore. Scully was not satisfied with the arrangement<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> as he said "What about the road? My fans won't be able to hear me." In Game 1 of the 1966 World Series, Scully called the first 4½ innings. When Gowdy inherited the announcing reins, Scully was so upset that he refused to say another word. As previously mentioned, before <a href="/wiki/1966_World_Series" title="1966 World Series">1966</a>, NBC typically paired the top announcers for the respective World Series teams to alternate play-by-play during each game's telecast. For example, if the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">Yankees</a> played the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Dodgers</a> in the World Series, Mel Allen (representing the Yankees) would call half the game and Vin Scully (representing the Dodgers) would call the rest of the game. However, in 1966, NBC wanted its regular network announcer, Curt Gowdy, to call most of the play-by-play at the expense of the top local announcers. So instead of calling half of every World Series game on television (as Vin Scully had done in <a href="/wiki/1953_World_Series" title="1953 World Series">1953</a>, <a href="/wiki/1955_World_Series" title="1955 World Series">1955</a>, <a href="/wiki/1956_World_Series" title="1956 World Series">1956</a>, <a href="/wiki/1959_World_Series" title="1959 World Series">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/1963_World_Series" title="1963 World Series">1963</a> and <a href="/wiki/1965_World_Series" title="1965 World Series">1965</a>) they only get to call half of all home games on TV, providing color commentary while Gowdy called play-by-play for the rest each game. The visiting teams' announcers participated in the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball on NBC Radio">NBC Radio</a> broadcasts. In broadcasts of Series-clinching (or potentially Series-clinching) games on both media, NBC sent the announcer for whichever team was ahead in the game to that team's clubhouse in the ninth inning in order to help cover the trophy presentation and conduct postgame interviews. In 1967, main Game of the Week broadcasts were <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blacked-out</a> in the cities of the two participating teams. In some cases, those games were aired by way of the teams' respective local flagship stations, with their local announcing crews – for example, the May 27, <a href="/wiki/1967_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1967 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodgers</a>–<a href="/wiki/1967_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1967 San Francisco Giants season">Giants</a> contest in San Francisco was not carried by either KRON-TV in the originating city or <a href="/wiki/KNBC" title="KNBC">KNBC</a> in Los Angeles. The game was, however, telecast in Los Angeles over the Dodgers' flagship station <a href="/wiki/KTTV" title="KTTV">KTTV</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Doggett" title="Jerry Doggett">Jerry Doggett</a> and Vin Scully providing play-by-play. At the time, Dodgers' broadcasts over KTTV were limited to road games in San Francisco. Conversely the Giants' broadcast partner, <a href="/wiki/KTVU" title="KTVU">KTVU</a>, did not broadcast the team's home games in 1967.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Viewers in the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> may have been able to view this game on one of two NBC affiliates from nearby areas, <a href="/wiki/KSBW-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="KSBW-TV">KSBW-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Salinas,_California" title="Salinas, California">Salinas</a> and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. The <a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1967 All-Star Game</a> in <a href="/wiki/Angel_Stadium_of_Anaheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel Stadium of Anaheim">Anaheim</a> can be considered the first "<a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a>" telecast of a Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The game started at approximately 7:00 p.m. on the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>, noting that the game "began at 4 p.m. in California and ended at 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time," reported "an estimated 55 million people watched the game, compared with 12 million viewers for the 1966 All-Star Game, played in the afternoon." <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Blattner" title="Buddy Blattner">Buddy Blattner</a>, broadcaster for the host <a href="/wiki/1967_California_Angels_season" title="1967 California Angels season">California Angels</a>, appeared briefly at the beginning of the NBC telecast to introduce viewers to <a href="/wiki/Anaheim_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Anaheim Stadium">Anaheim Stadium</a> before moving to the NBC Radio booth for the game itself. <a href="/wiki/1968_Houston_Astros_season" title="1968 Houston Astros season">Houston Astros</a> announcer <a href="/wiki/Gene_Elston" title="Gene Elston">Gene Elston</a> was used in the same role for the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1968</a> game at the <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Astrodome</a>. Week 4 of the <a href="/wiki/1967_AFL_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1967 AFL season">1967 AFL season</a> coincided with the race for the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> pennant. NBC decided to focus on their baseball coverage instead of covering the early games; thus resulting in <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> calling the <a href="/wiki/1967_Minnesota_Twins_season" title="1967 Minnesota Twins season">Twins</a>-<a href="/wiki/1967_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1967 Boston Red Sox season">Red Sox</a> game; <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a> calling the <a href="/wiki/1967_California_Angels_season" title="1967 California Angels season">Angels</a>-<a href="/wiki/1967_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1967 Detroit Tigers season">Tigers</a> game); while the AFL schedule resulted in the two early games (<a href="/wiki/1967_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1967 Denver Broncos season">Broncos</a>-<a href="/wiki/1967_Houston_Oilers_season" title="1967 Houston Oilers season">Oilers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1967_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1967 Miami Dolphins season">Dolphins</a>-<a href="/wiki/1967_New_York_Jets_season" title="1967 New York Jets season">Jets</a>) not being televised with another <a href="/wiki/1967_San_Diego_Chargers_season" title="1967 San Diego Chargers season">Chargers</a>-<a href="/wiki/1967_Buffalo_Bills_season" title="1967 Buffalo Bills season">Bills</a> game being a locally televised game airing only in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego, California">San Diego</a> on then-NBC affiliate KOGO (now ABC affiliate <a href="/wiki/KGTV" title="KGTV">KGTV</a>). The June 8, 1968 Game of the Week broadcast was cancelled due to coverage of the <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_assassination#Memorial" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert F. Kennedy assassination">funeral/burial</a> of <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>. <a href="/wiki/1968_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1968 Cleveland Indians season">Cleveland</a> at <a href="/wiki/1968_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1968 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit</a> and <a href="/wiki/1968_Atlanta_Braves_season" title="1968 Atlanta Braves season">Atlanta</a> at <a href="/wiki/1968_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1968 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a> were the games scheduled to air on that date. Tony Kubek initially had trouble adjusting to the world of broadcasting. Although he had a lot to say, he was gangling, he tended to <a href="/wiki/Stuttering" title="Stuttering">stutter</a>, and he talked too fast. Curt Gowdy soon suggested to Kubek that he should work in the off-season to improve his delivery. Kubek bought a tape recorder and took to reading poetry aloud for 20 minutes a day. In 1968, Kubek wowed as a <a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">World Series</a> field reporter. Pee Wee Reese, who was soon fired by NBC (and replaced by Kubek as the top analyst) said of Kubek "He wormed his way around, but I wasn't bitter. I just think if you don't have anything to say, you should shut your mouth." The <a href="/wiki/1969_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1969 All-Star Game</a> was originally scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, July 22, but heavy rains forced its postponement to the following afternoon. The 1969 contest remains the last All-Star Game to date to be played earlier than <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a> in the Eastern United States. <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Jones_(sportscaster)" title="Charlie Jones (sportscaster)">Charlie Jones</a> served as an "in-the-stands" reporter for NBC's coverage. Games 3, 4, and 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1969_World_Series" title="1969 World Series">1969 World Series</a> are believed to be the oldest surviving <a href="/wiki/Color_television" title="Color television">color television</a> broadcasts of World Series games (even though World Series telecasts have aired in color since <a href="/wiki/1955_World_Series" title="1955 World Series">1955</a>). However, they were "truck feeds" in that they do not contain the original commercials, but show a static image of the <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a> field between innings. Games 1 and 2 were saved only as black-and-white kinescopes provided by the <a href="/wiki/CBC_Television" title="CBC Television">CBC</a>. CBC also preserved all seven games of the <a href="/wiki/1965_World_Series" title="1965 World Series">1965</a> and <a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">1968 World Series</a> (plus the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1968 All-Star Game</a>) in black-and-white kinescope. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s">1970s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1970s">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1970–75">1970–75</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1970–75">edit</a>]</div> In 1970, NBC televised the second games of both League Championship Series on a regional basis. Some markets received the <a href="/wiki/1970_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1970 National League Championship Series">NLCS</a> at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time along with a 4:00 p.m. <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">football</a> game, while other markets got the <a href="/wiki/1970_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1970 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a> at 4:00 p.m. along with a 1:00 p.m. football game. In 1967, soon after his retirement as a player, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a> signed a ten-year contract with NBC for $1 million to serve as a broadcaster on the Saturday Game of the Week. Koufax never felt comfortable being in front of the camera, and quit before the 1973 season. Also in 1971, Game 1 of the <a href="/wiki/1971_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1971 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a> was rained out on Saturday, October 2. NBC did not televise<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> the rescheduled Game 1 the following day (the network had only planned an <a href="/wiki/1971_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1971 National League Championship Series">NLCS</a> telecast that day), but added a telecast of Game 2 on Monday, October 4 (which had been a scheduled travel day). 1971 was the first year that the League Championship Series schedule contained travel days. Back then, for the most part, Major League Baseball did this whenever a <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">west coast</a> team (in this case, the <a href="/wiki/1971_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1971 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/1971_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="1971 Oakland Athletics season">Oakland Athletics</a>) was involved. On October 13, 1971, the <a href="/wiki/1971_World_Series" title="1971 World Series">World Series</a> held a night game for the very first time.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Bowie_Kuhn" title="Bowie Kuhn">Bowie Kuhn</a>, who felt that baseball could attract a larger audience by featuring a prime time telecast (as opposed to a mid-afternoon broadcast, occurring when most fans either worked or attended school), pitched the idea to NBC. An estimated 61 million people watched Game 4 on NBC; television <a href="/wiki/Nielsen_ratings" class="mw-redirect" title="Nielsen ratings">ratings</a> for a World Series game during the daytime hours would not have approached such a record number. For World Series night games, NBC normally began baseball coverage at 8:00 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Pre-game_show" title="Pre-game show">pre-game show</a> (with first pitch occurring around 8:20 to 8:25 p.m.). However, in 1986 and 1988, for Game 5 of the World Series (on Thursday night), NBC's coverage did not begin until 8:30. This allowed the network to air its highly rated sitcom <a href="/wiki/The_Cosby_Show" title="The Cosby Show">The Cosby Show</a> in its normal Thursday 8:00 p.m. timeslot. NBC went with carrying a very short pre-game show and got to first pitch at around 8:40 p.m. Eastern Time. In the early years of the League Championship Series,<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> NBC typically televised a doubleheader on Saturday, a single game on Sunday (because of <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">football coverage</a>). At the time, the network covered the weekday games with a 1½-hour overlap, joining the second game in progress when the first one ended (unless a rain delay caused the second game to start after the first game ended, as was the case during the <a href="/wiki/1972_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1972 National League Championship Series">1972 NLCS</a>, when the <a href="/wiki/1972_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season">Pirates</a>-<a href="/wiki/1972_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1972 Cincinnati Reds season">Reds</a> Game 5 was delayed long enough that by the time that the <a href="/wiki/1972_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="1972 Oakland Athletics season">A's</a>-<a href="/wiki/1972_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1972 Detroit Tigers season">Tigers</a> <a href="/wiki/1972_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1972 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a> Game 4 was over, NBC could join the game in time for the first pitch.). NBC usually swapped announcer crews after Game 2. NBC did not air Game 2<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> of the 1972 NLCS or the <a href="/wiki/1974_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1974 National League Championship Series">1974 NLCS</a>. Except for Game 1 in both League Championship Series, all games in 1975 were regionally televised. Game 3 of both League Championship Series were aired in prime time, the first time such an occurrence happened. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Monday_Night_Baseball_(1972–75)">Monday Night Baseball (1972–75)</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Monday Night Baseball (1972–75)">edit</a>]</div> In <a href="/wiki/1972_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1972 Major League Baseball season">1972</a>,<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> NBC began televising prime time regular-season games on Mondays, under a four-year contract worth $72 million. During the previous two seasons, the network had shown a limited number of Monday night games, with three in <a href="/wiki/1970_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1970 Major League Baseball season">1970</a> and five in <a href="/wiki/1971_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1971 Major League Baseball season">1971</a>, in addition to the <a href="/wiki/1971_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star games</a> (on Tuesday night in July).<a href="#cite_note-tvtots-45">[45]</a> In <a href="/wiki/1973_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1973 Major League Baseball season">1973</a>, NBC extended the <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Baseball" title="Monday Night Baseball">Monday night</a> telecasts (with a local <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blackout</a>) to fifteen consecutive games. NBC's last Monday Night Baseball game aired on September 1, <a href="/wiki/1975_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1975 Major League Baseball season">1975</a>, in which the <a href="/wiki/1975_Montreal_Expos_season" title="1975 Montreal Expos season">Montréal Expos</a> beat the <a href="/wiki/1975_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1975 Philadelphia Phillies season">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, 6–5. Curt Gowdy called the games with Tony Kubek from 1972 to 1974, being joined in the 1973 and <a href="/wiki/1974_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1974 Major League Baseball season">1974</a> seasons by various guest commentators from both within and outside of the baseball world (among them Dizzy Dean, <a href="/wiki/Joe_DiMaggio" title="Joe DiMaggio">Joe DiMaggio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satchel_Paige" title="Satchel Paige">Satchel Paige</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Riggs" title="Bobby Riggs">Bobby Riggs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_DeBusschere" title="Dave DeBusschere">Dave DeBusschere</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howard_Cosell" title="Howard Cosell">Howard Cosell</a>, Mel Allen, <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a>), while <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maury_Wills" title="Maury Wills">Maury Wills</a> called the secondary backup games. Joe Garagiola hosted the pre-game show, The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola, and teamed with Gowdy to call the games in 1975. During NBC's telecast of the Monday night <a href="/wiki/1974_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1974 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodgers</a>–<a href="/wiki/1974_Atlanta_Braves_season" title="1974 Atlanta Braves season">Braves</a> game on April 8, 1974, in which <a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a> hit his record-breaking 715th career home run,<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> Kubek criticized Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Bowie_Kuhn" title="Bowie Kuhn">Bowie Kuhn</a> on-air for failing to be in attendance at <a href="/wiki/Atlanta%E2%80%93Fulton_County_Stadium" title="Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium">Fulton County Stadium</a> in Atlanta on that historic night; Kuhn argued that he had a prior engagement that he could not break. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Joe_Garagiola_replaces_Curt_Gowdy">Joe Garagiola replaces Curt Gowdy</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Joe Garagiola replaces Curt Gowdy">edit</a>]</div> Starting in 1975, Joe Garagiola and Curt Gowdy alternated as the Saturday Game of Week play-by-play announcers with Tony Kubek doing color analysis. Then on weeks in which NBC had <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Baseball" title="Monday Night Baseball">Monday Night Baseball</a>, Gowdy and Garagiola worked together. One would call play-by-play for 4½ innings, the other would handle color analysis. Then in the bottom of the 5th inning, their roles switched. Ultimately, in November 1975, <a href="/wiki/Chrysler" title="Chrysler">Chrysler</a> forced NBC to totally remove Curt Gowdy from NBC's top baseball team. Instead, the company wanted their spokesman, Joe Garagiola, to call all the main regular season games, All-Star Games (when NBC had them), the top League Championship Series (when NBC had it), and the World Series (when NBC had it). NBC hoped that, in replacing Curt Gowdy, Joe Garagiola's charm and unorthodox dwelling on the personal would stop the decade-long ratings dive for the Game of the Week. Instead, the ratings bobbed from 6.7 (1977) via 7.5 (1978) to 6.3 (1981–82). "Saturday had a constituency, but it didn't swell" said NBC Sports executive producer Scotty Connal. Some believed that millions missed Dizzy Dean while local-team television broadcasters split the audience. Scotty Connal believed that the team of Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek were "A great example of black and white". Connal added by saying "A pitcher throws badly to third, Joe says, 'The third baseman's fault.' Tony: 'The pitcher's'." Media critic Gary Deeb termed theirs "the finest baseball commentary ever carried on network TV." Another factor behind Gowdy's dismissal was the criticism from the national media which alleged that he sided with the <a href="/wiki/1975_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1975 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a> (a franchise that he had covered prior to his days at NBC) on a controversial play in the 10th inning of Game 3 of the <a href="/wiki/1975_World_Series" title="1975 World Series">1975 World Series</a>. <a href="/wiki/1975_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1975 Cincinnati Reds season">Cincinnati Reds</a> pinch hitter <a href="/wiki/Ed_Armbrister" title="Ed Armbrister">Ed Armbrister</a> reached base on what was ruled an error by Red Sox catcher <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Fisk" title="Carlton Fisk">Carlton Fisk</a> on Armbrister's bunt attempt. Gowdy said numerous times that, in his opinion, Armbrister had interfered with Fisk. Gowdy had been given the correct interpretation by <a href="/wiki/NBC_Radio_Network" title="NBC Radio Network">NBC Radio</a> Producer Jay Scott (who was a <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">Triple-A</a> fill-in umpire at the time as well), but did not use it.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Umpire <a href="/wiki/Larry_Barnett" title="Larry Barnett">Larry Barnett</a> claimed he had received death threats on account of Gowdy's criticism. More to the point, Tony Kubek, on the NBC telecast, immediately charged that Armbrister interfered (with the attempted forceout), even though home plate umpire Barnett did not agree. Later, Kubek got 1,000 letters dubbing him a Boston stooge. Prior to Game 2 of the <a href="/wiki/1986_World_Series" title="1986 World Series">1986 World Series</a>, NBC did a feature on replays narrated by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a>. One of the plays cited by Costas was the Armbrister play, and Barnett and Costas both insisted that Barnett had made the correct call, although Barnett declared, "You won't find many people in Boston who believe it was the right call." Costas used the feature to condemn the suggested notion of <a href="/wiki/Instant_replay" title="Instant replay">instant replay</a> to settle calls, noting that it was the "same kind of mentality that adds color to classic movies and calls it progress." While Gowdy was on hand in the press box for Carlton Fisk's legendary home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series,<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> the actual calls went to two of Gowdy's Red Sox successors, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Stockton" title="Dick Stockton">Dick Stockton</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> on television and <a href="/wiki/Ned_Martin" title="Ned Martin">Ned Martin</a> on radio. Gowdy was Martin's color commentator on that home run. Stockton on NBC stayed silent as Fisk rounded the bases, waiting until he made his way into the Red Sox dugout before proclaiming: "We will have a seventh game in this 1975 World Series." Meanwhile, according to the NBC cameraman Lou Gerard located above the third base stands, cameramen at the time were instructed to follow the flight of the ball. Instead Gerard was distracted by a rat nearby, thus he lost track of the baseball and instead decided to capture the image of Fisk "magically" waving the ball fair.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1976–79">1976–79</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1976–79">edit</a>]</div> For Game 2 of the <a href="/wiki/1976_World_Series" title="1976 World Series">1976 World Series</a>, NBC and Major League Baseball experimented with a Sunday night telecast. On June 18, 1977, in the <a href="/wiki/1977_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1977 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a>' 10–4 loss to the <a href="/wiki/1977_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1977 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a> in a nationally televised game at <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway Park</a> in Boston, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Rice" title="Jim Rice">Jim Rice</a>, a powerful hitter but a slow runner, hit a ball into right field that <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Jackson" title="Reggie Jackson">Reggie Jackson</a> seemed to get to without much speed, and Rice reached second base. Furious, Yankees manager <a href="/wiki/Billy_Martin" title="Billy Martin">Billy Martin</a> removed Jackson from the game without even waiting for the end of the inning, sending <a href="/wiki/Paul_Blair_(baseball)" title="Paul Blair (baseball)">Paul Blair</a> out to replace him. When Jackson arrived at the dugout, Martin yelled that Jackson had shown him up. The two men argued, and Jackson said that Martin's heavy drinking had impaired his judgment. Despite Jackson being eighteen years younger, about two inches taller and maybe 40 pounds heavier, Martin lunged at him, and had to be restrained by coaches <a href="/wiki/Yogi_Berra" title="Yogi Berra">Yogi Berra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elston_Howard" title="Elston Howard">Elston Howard</a>. Red Sox fans could see this in the dugout and began cheering wildly; NBC television cameras showed the confrontation to the entire country. The 1977 postseason schedule started on Tuesday after starting on Saturday from 1969 to 1976. Major League Baseball began a pattern where one <a href="/wiki/1977_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1977 National League Championship Series">League Championship Series</a> started on Tuesday and contained an off-day while the other <a href="/wiki/1977_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1977 American League Championship Series">LCS</a> started on Wednesday with no off-day. NBC used three different announcer crews (<a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola" title="Joe Garagiola">Joe Garagiola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maury_Wills" title="Maury Wills">Maury Wills</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Enberg" title="Dick Enberg">Dick Enberg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Don_Drysdale" title="Don Drysdale">Don Drysdale</a>) on the 1977 LCS. After being replaced full-time by Joe Garagiola as the lead play-by-play man, NBC used <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> in a hosting role for their coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1978_World_Series" title="1978 World Series">1978 World Series</a>. On July 7, 1979, <a href="/wiki/WMC-TV" title="WMC-TV">WMC 5</a> in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a> aired a <a href="/wiki/Continental_Wrestling_Association" title="Continental Wrestling Association">local Memphis wrestling program</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lawler" title="Jerry Lawler">Jerry "The King" Lawler</a> instead of NBC's baseball telecast between the <a href="/wiki/1977_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1977 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> and <a href="/wiki/1977_Milwaukee_Brewers_season" title="1977 Milwaukee Brewers season">Milwaukee Brewers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Alternating_coverage_with_ABC_(1976–79)">Alternating coverage with ABC (1976–79)</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Alternating coverage with ABC (1976–79)">edit</a>]</div> Under the initial agreement with ABC, NBC and Major League Baseball (running through the 1976 to 1979 seasons), both networks paid $92.8 million for the league broadcast rights. ABC paid $12.5 million per year to show 16 Monday night games in 1976, 18 in the next three years, plus half the postseason (the <a href="/wiki/League_Championship_Series" title="League Championship Series">League Championship Series</a> in even-numbered years and World Series in odd-numbered years). NBC paid $10.7 million per year to show 25 Saturday Games of the Week and the other half of the postseason (the League Championship Series in odd-numbered years and World Series in even-numbered years). Major League Baseball media director John Lazarus said of the new arrangement between NBC and ABC "Ratings couldn't get more from one network so we approached another." NBC's Joe Garagiola was not very fond of the new broadcasting arrangement at first saying "I wished they hadn't got half the package. Still, 'Game', half of the postseason – we got lots left." By 1980, income from television broadcasts accounted for a record 30% of the game's $500 million in revenues. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Weisman" title="Michael Weisman">Michael Weisman</a> became NBC's coordinating producer for baseball in 1979, where he learned baseball production from Harry Coyle,<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> whom Weisman calls his idol and mentor.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Weisman became the executive producer of NBC Sports in 1982.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> In baseball, Weisman introduced split-screen baseball coverage, which allowed fans to watch two games simultaneously.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> Weisman also was among the first producers to have baseball players introduce their team lineups, which helped personalize the game for viewers.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s">1980s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1980s">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1980–82">1980–82</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 1980–82">edit</a>]</div> On October 4, 1980,<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> made his debut calling baseball games for NBC. It was a backup game (the primary game involved the <a href="/wiki/1980_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1980 Philadelphia Phillies season">Philadelphia Phillies</a> and <a href="/wiki/1980_Montreal_Expos_season" title="1980 Montreal Expos season">Montreal Expos</a>) involving the <a href="/wiki/1980_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1980 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> and <a href="/wiki/1980_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1980 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> from <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium_(1923)" title="Yankee Stadium (1923)">Yankee Stadium</a>. The <a href="/wiki/1980_World_Series" title="1980 World Series">1980 World Series</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> is tied with the <a href="/wiki/1978_World_Series" title="1978 World Series">1978 Series</a> for having the highest overall television ratings for a World Series to date, with the six games averaging a <a href="/wiki/Nielsen_rating" class="mw-redirect" title="Nielsen rating">Nielsen rating</a> of 32.8 and a share of 56.<a href="#cite_note-World_Series_Television_Ratings-62">[62]</a> Although <a href="/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel" title="Bryant Gumbel">Bryant Gumbel</a> anchored NBC's pregame coverage for Game 5 of the 1980 World Series, he was not present at <a href="/wiki/Royals_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Royals Stadium">Royals Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a>. Game 5 was scheduled on a Sunday, which conflicted with Gumbel's hosting duties for the network's NFL pre-game show <a href="/wiki/The_NFL_on_NBC_Pregame_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="The NFL on NBC Pregame Show">NFL '80</a>. As a result, Gumbel had to anchor the World Series coverage from the NBC Studios in New York City. Gumbel, however, would be present at <a href="/wiki/Veterans_Stadium" title="Veterans Stadium">Veterans Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> for Game 6, which turned out to be the clincher for the <a href="/wiki/1980_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1980 Philadelphia Phillies season">Phillies</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/1981_Major_League_Baseball_strike" title="1981 Major League Baseball strike">1981 players' strike</a>,<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> NBC used its Saturday Game of the Week time-slot to show a 20-minute strike update, followed by a sports anthology series hosted by <a href="/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner" title="Caitlyn Jenner">Caitlyn Jenner</a> (then Bruce)<a href="#cite_note-64">[a]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a> called NBC Sports: The Summer Season.<a href="#cite_note-66">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a> As a means to recoup revenue lost during the 1981 players' strike, Major League Baseball set up a special additional playoff round (as a prelude to the League Championship Series). ABC televised the <a href="/wiki/1981_American_League_Division_Series" title="1981 American League Division Series">American League Division Series</a> while NBC televised the <a href="/wiki/1981_National_League_Division_Series" title="1981 National League Division Series">National League Division Series</a>.<a href="#cite_note-68">[67]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Division_Series" title="Division Series">Division Series</a> round would not be officially instituted until 14 years later. Games 1, 3, and 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1981_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1981 Philadelphia Phillies season">Phillies</a>/<a href="/wiki/1981_Montreal_Expos_season" title="1981 Montreal Expos season">Expos</a> series and Games 2, 3, and 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1981_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1981 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodgers</a>/<a href="/wiki/1981_Houston_Astros_season" title="1981 Houston Astros season">Astros</a> series were regionally televised. Even though <a href="/wiki/Dick_Enberg" title="Dick Enberg">Dick Enberg</a> did play-by-play for the <a href="/wiki/1981_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1981 National League Championship Series">1981 NLCS</a> for NBC (working alongside <a href="/wiki/Tom_Seaver" title="Tom Seaver">Tom Seaver</a>), <a href="/wiki/Merle_Harmon" title="Merle Harmon">Merle Harmon</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[68]</a> was, for the most part, NBC's backup baseball play-by-play announcer (serving behind Joe Garagiola, who called that year's <a href="/wiki/1981_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1981 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a> for NBC with Tony Kubek) in 1981. Harmon's broadcast partner during this period was <a href="/wiki/Ron_Luciano" title="Ron Luciano">Ron Luciano</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[72]</a> In late 1979, Harmon left the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Brewers" title="Milwaukee Brewers">Milwaukee Brewers</a> completely in favor of a multi-year pact with NBC. Harmon saw the NBC deal as a perfect opportunity since according to <a href="/wiki/The_Milwaukee_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="The Milwaukee Journal">The Milwaukee Journal</a> he would make more money, get more exposure, and do less traveling. At NBC, Harmon did <a href="/wiki/SportsWorld" class="mw-redirect" title="SportsWorld">SportsWorld</a>, the backup Game of the Week, and served as a field reporter for the <a href="/wiki/1980_World_Series" title="1980 World Series">1980 World Series</a>. Most of all, Harmon had hoped to cover the American-boycotted <a href="/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics" title="1980 Summer Olympics">1980 Summer Olympics</a> from Moscow. After NBC pulled out of their scheduled coverage of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Harmon considered it to be "a great letdown." To add insult to injury, NBC fired Harmon in 1982 in favor of Bob Costas.<a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> It was in 1982 that Costas started working the NBC backup games on a full-time basis, with former <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland A's</a> third baseman <a href="/wiki/Sal_Bando" title="Sal Bando">Sal Bando</a> as his color man. On June 26, 1982, before the bottom of the 9th inning of NBC's Game of the Week between <a href="/wiki/1982_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1982 Boston Red Sox season">Boston</a> and <a href="/wiki/1982_Milwaukee_Brewers_season" title="1982 Milwaukee Brewers season">Milwaukee</a> the power went out at <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway Park</a>. All television equipment stopped functioning except for one camera and the intercom. The director of the telecast, Harry Coyle, who had previously directed 36 World Series broadcasts for NBC, told the lone cameraman, Mario, "We'll show 'em what one cameraman can do!" and proceeded to direct the final inning of the game with just a single camera and zoom lens, located above home plate — including a near-comeback by the Red Sox, who before the start of the inning, were down 11–8. According to his autobiography, Oh My,<a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a> Dick Enberg (then the lead play-by-play voice for <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">The NFL on NBC</a>) was informed by NBC that he would become the lead play-by-play voice of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week beginning with the <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Series" title="1982 World Series">1982 World Series</a> (sharing the play-by-play duties for those games with Joe Garagiola, alongside analyst Tony Kubek) and through subsequent regular seasons. Enberg wrote that on his football trips, he would read every edition of <a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_News" title="The Sporting News">The Sporting News</a> to make sure he was current with all the baseball news and notes. He then met with NBC executives in September 1982, who informed him that Vin Scully<a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a> was in negotiations to be their lead baseball play-by-play announcer (teaming with Garagiola, while Kubek would team with Bob Costas) and began with the network in the spring of 1983. Therefore, rather than throw him in randomly for one World Series, Enberg wrote that he hosted the pre-game/post-game shows while the team of Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek did the games. According to the book, Enberg was not pleased about the decision (since he loved being the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels" title="Los Angeles Angels">Los Angeles Angels</a>' radio voice in the 1970s and was eager to return to baseball) but the fact that NBC was bringing in Scully, arguably baseball's best announcer, was understandable. Enberg added that NBC also gave him a significant pay increase as a pseudo-apology for not coming through on the promise to make him the lead baseball play-by-play announcer. Tom Seaver provided periodic commentary during the <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Series" title="1982 World Series">1982 World Series</a>, but was not in the booth. As previously mentioned, Dick Enberg and Joe Garagiola traded off play-by-play duties (just as Tony Kubek had done with Garagiola in NBC's previous World Series broadcasts) for NBC's coverage in 1982. Garagiola called the first three and last three innings. Enberg, meanwhile, hosted the pregame show and then called the middle innings. A <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">Canadian Football League</a> <a href="/wiki/1982_CFL_season" title="1982 CFL season">game</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1982_Edmonton_Eskimos_season" title="1982 Edmonton Eskimos season">Edmonton Eskimos</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1982_Winnipeg_Blue_Bombers_season" title="1982 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season">Winnipeg Blue Bombers</a> was tentatively scheduled for 1:30 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a> on Sunday October 17, even making newspaper TV listings. At the last moment NBC, who was using the <a href="/wiki/CFL_on_NBC" title="CFL on NBC">CFL</a> as substitute programming during the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_Players_Association#1982_strike" title="National Football League Players Association">1982 players strike</a>, cancelled the broadcast. The network was worried that the game would run over its allotted time and conflict with Game 5 of the World Series, which was supposed to begin at 4:30. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alternating_coverage_with_ABC_(1983–89)">Alternating coverage with ABC (1983–89)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Alternating coverage with ABC (1983–89)">edit</a>]</div> On April 7, 1983, Major League Baseball agreed to terms with ABC and NBC on a six-year television package,<a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a> worth $1.2 billion. The two networks would continue to alternate coverage of the <a href="/wiki/League_Championship_Series" title="League Championship Series">playoffs</a> (ABC in even-numbered years and NBC in odd-numbered years), World Series (ABC would televise the World Series in odd-numbered years and NBC in even-numbered years) and <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> (ABC would televise the All-Star Game in even-numbered years and NBC in odd-numbered years) through the 1989 season, with each of the 26 clubs receiving $7 million per year in return (even if no fans showed up). This was a substantial increase over the last package, in which each club was being paid $1.9 million per year. ABC contributed $575 million for the rights to televise prime time and Sunday afternoon regular season games and NBC paid $550 million for the rights to broadcast 30 Saturday afternoon games.<a href="#cite_note-79">[78]</a> <a href="/wiki/USA_Thursday_Game_of_the_Week" class="mw-redirect" title="USA Thursday Game of the Week">USA Network</a>'s coverage became a casualty of the new $1.2 billion television contract between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC. One of the provisions to the new deal was that local telecasts that aired opposite network games had to be eliminated.<a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a> Through the deal, the two networks paid $20 million in advance for the <a href="/wiki/1983_in_baseball" title="1983 in baseball">1983</a> season; both networks paid a total of $126 million in <a href="/wiki/1984_in_baseball" title="1984 in baseball">1984</a> (NBC $70 million and ABC $56 million). For the <a href="/wiki/1985_in_baseball" title="1985 in baseball">1985</a> season, the rights fee totaled $136 million (with NBC paying $61 million and ABC paying $75 million), although the networks got $9 million when Major League Baseball expanded the League Championship Series from a best-of-five to a best-of-seven in 1985. The total rights fee increased to $141 million for <a href="/wiki/1986_in_baseball" title="1986 in baseball">1986</a> (NBC $75 million, ABC $66 million), $171 million for <a href="/wiki/1987_in_baseball" title="1987 in baseball">1987</a> (NBC $81 million, ABC $90 million) and then to $186 million for the <a href="/wiki/1988_in_baseball" title="1988 in baseball">1988</a> (NBC $90 million, ABC $96 million). For the final year of the contract in <a href="/wiki/1989_in_baseball" title="1989 in baseball">1989</a>, NBC paid a fee of $106 million and ABC paid $125 million to the league, with the total rising to $231 million. NBC also would normally televise two <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a> games during the regular season (not including All-Star Games). Generally, NBC would broadcast one game on a Tuesday and the other on a Friday. They however, would have to compete against local teams' <a href="/wiki/Historical_Major_League_Baseball_over-the-air_television_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical Major League Baseball over-the-air television broadcasters">over-the-air broadcasts</a>, putting NBC at risk of hampering its ratings. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Memorable_moments">Memorable moments</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Memorable moments">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> observed the performance of the team of Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola<a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a> by saying "That the duo of Scully and Garagiola is very good, and often even great, is no longer in dispute." A friend of Garagiola's said "he understood the cash" concerning 407% hike in Major League Baseball fees paid by NBC for the 1984–89 contract. At this point the idea was basically summarized as Vin Scully "being the star", whereas Joe Garagiola was <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] or NBC's junior light. When NBC inked a six-year, $550 million contract in the fall of 1982, a return on the investment, so to speak, demanded that Vin Scully be their star baseball announcer. NBC Sports head Thomas Watson said about Scully, "He is baseball's best announcer. Why shouldn't he be ours?" Dick Enberg mused "No room for me. 'Game' had enough for two teams a week." Henry Hecht once wrote "NBC's Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, and <a href="/wiki/Monte_Moore" title="Monte Moore">Monte Moore</a> sounded like college radio rejects vs. Scully." Vin Scully earned approximately $2 million per year for his NBC baseball broadcasting duties. Besides calling the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Saturday Game of the Week</a> for NBC, Scully called three World Series (1984, 1986, and 1988), four <a href="/wiki/National_League_Championship_Series" title="National League Championship Series">National League Championship Series</a> (<a href="/wiki/1983_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1983 National League Championship Series">1983</a>,<a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a> <a href="/wiki/1985_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 National League Championship Series">1985</a>, <a href="/wiki/1987_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1987 National League Championship Series">1987</a>, and <a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">1989</a>), and four <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Games</a> (<a href="/wiki/1983_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1985_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1985</a>, <a href="/wiki/1987_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1987 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1987</a>, and <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1989</a>). Scully also reworked his Dodgers schedule during this period, broadcasting home games on the radio, and road games for the Dodgers television network, with Fridays and Saturdays off so he could work for NBC. Scully was on hand for several key moments in baseball history: <a href="/wiki/Fred_Lynn" title="Fred Lynn">Fred Lynn</a> hitting the first <a href="/wiki/Grand_slam_(baseball)" title="Grand slam (baseball)">grand slam</a> in <a href="/wiki/1983_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> history (1983); the <a href="/wiki/1984_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1984 Detroit Tigers season">1984 Detroit Tigers</a> winning the <a href="/wiki/Commissioner%27s_Trophy_(MLB)" title="Commissioner's Trophy (MLB)">World Series</a> (along the way, Scully called Tigers pitcher <a href="/wiki/Jack_Morris" title="Jack Morris">Jack Morris</a>' <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> against the <a href="/wiki/1984_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1984 Chicago White Sox season">Chicago White Sox</a> on April 7); <a href="/wiki/Ozzie_Smith" title="Ozzie Smith">Ozzie Smith</a>'s game-winning home run in Game 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1985_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 National League Championship Series">1985 National League Championship Series</a>; the <a href="/wiki/1986_New_York_Mets_season" title="1986 New York Mets season">New York Mets'</a> miracle rally in Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/1986_World_Series" title="1986 World Series">1986 World Series</a>; the <a href="/wiki/1987_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1987 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1987 All-Star Game</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Alameda_Coliseum" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland Alameda Coliseum">Oakland</a>, which was deadlocked at 0–0 before <a href="/wiki/Tim_Raines" title="Tim Raines">Tim Raines</a> broke up the scoreless tie with a triple in the top of the 13th inning; the first official night game in the history of Chicago's <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a> (August 9, <a href="/wiki/1988_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1988 Chicago Cubs season">1988</a>); <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Gibson" title="Kirk Gibson">Kirk Gibson</a>'s game-winning <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Gibson%27s_1988_World_Series_home_run" title="Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run">home run</a> in Game 1 of the <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Series" title="1988 World Series">1988 World Series</a>;<a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a> and chatting with former <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> (who said to Scully, "I've been out of work for six months and maybe there's a future here.") in the booth during the <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1989 All-Star Game</a> in <a href="/wiki/Angel_Stadium" title="Angel Stadium">Anaheim</a> as <a href="/wiki/Bo_Jackson" title="Bo Jackson">Bo Jackson</a> hit a lead off home-run. When Tony Kubek first teamed with Bob Costas in 1983, Kubek said "I'm not crazy about being assigned to the backup game, but it's no big ego deal." Costas said about working with Kubek "I think my humor loosened Tony, and his knowledge improved me." The team of Costas and Kubek proved to be a formidable pair.<a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a> There were even some who preferred the team of Kubek and Costas over the musings of Vin Scully and the asides of Joe Garagiola. Costas was praised by fans for both his reverence and irreverence while Kubek was praised for his technical approach and historical perspective. For the 1983 season, NBC introduced a wraparound <a href="/wiki/NBC_Studios_(New_York_City)" title="NBC Studios (New York City)">studio show</a> (airing for about 15 minutes) co-hosted by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Macatee" title="Bill Macatee">Bill Macatee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Adamle" title="Mike Adamle">Mike Adamle</a> called 30 Rock (a reference to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> <a href="/wiki/30_Rockefeller_Plaza" title="30 Rockefeller Plaza">skyscraper</a> that housed NBC's headquarters). The show would offer sports news, highlights and feature reports from <a href="/wiki/Len_Berman" title="Len Berman">Len Berman</a>. It would actually handle breaking news as well. NBC canceled the 30 Rock pregame show after one year. It was also used to wraparound <a href="/wiki/College_Basketball_on_NBC" class="mw-redirect" title="College Basketball on NBC">college basketball</a> games, <a href="/wiki/Golf_Channel_on_NBC" class="mw-redirect" title="Golf Channel on NBC">golf</a>, and <a href="/wiki/NBC_SportsWorld" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC SportsWorld">NBC SportsWorld</a>. 1983 was also the last season that the old <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)" title="Blackout (broadcasting)">blackout</a> restrictions were in place. Thus, Vin Scully's first Game of the Week telecast (<a href="/wiki/1983_Montreal_Expos_season" title="1983 Montreal Expos season">Montreal</a> at <a href="/wiki/1983_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1983 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Los Angeles</a> on April 9) did not air in <a href="/wiki/KNBC" title="KNBC">Los Angeles</a>. For NBC's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1983_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1983 All-Star Game</a> in <a href="/wiki/Comiskey_Park" title="Comiskey Park">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Sutton" title="Don Sutton">Don Sutton</a> was in New York, periodically tracking pitches with the aid of NBC's "Inside Pitch" technology. Sutton<a href="#cite_note-85">[84]</a> also served as an analyst alongside host Bill Macatee for NBC's coverage of the 1983 American League Championship Series. Meanwhile, Len Berman hosted NBC's coverage of the 1983 National League Championship Series alongside Tom Seaver. 1984 was the first year that the Game of the Week was not subject to blackout. NBC and ABC generally still aired two games each week, with a primary game carried to most of the country and a secondary game to mostly the markets that would carry that game. This was mostly done for insurance in the event that a game was <a href="/wiki/Rainout_(sports)" title="Rainout (sports)">rained out</a>. During the 1970s and early 1980s, many of the "rainout insurance" games involved the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> since that team played in a <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">domed ballpark</a>. Therefore, if the Astros were at home on a given <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Saturday</a> or <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Baseball" title="Monday Night Baseball">Monday night</a>, then it was a safe bet that the game would be shown on network television, due to the Astros being the only "dome" team (until the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Mariners" title="Seattle Mariners">Seattle Mariners</a> began play in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdome" title="Kingdome">Kingdome</a> in <a href="/wiki/1977_Seattle_Mariners_season" title="1977 Seattle Mariners season">1977</a>). During the <a href="/wiki/1984_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1984 Major League Baseball season">1984 regular season</a>, the reason for most of the changes from the traditional 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time start was because of NBC's <a href="/wiki/Golf_Channel_on_NBC" class="mw-redirect" title="Golf Channel on NBC">golf</a> or <a href="/wiki/Tennis_on_NBC" title="Tennis on NBC">tennis</a> commitments as well as September 1 <a href="/wiki/Boxing_on_NBC" title="Boxing on NBC">title fight</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Eusebio_Pedroza" title="Eusebio Pedroza">Eusebio Pedroza</a>. Bob Costas and Tony Kubek were the announcers on the "<a href="/wiki/Ryne_Sandberg#.22The_Sandberg_Game.22" title="Ryne Sandberg">Sandberg Game</a>" on June 23, 1984, from <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a>.<a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a> In that game, <a href="/wiki/1984_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1984 Chicago Cubs season">Cubs</a> second baseman <a href="/wiki/Ryne_Sandberg" title="Ryne Sandberg">Ryne Sandberg</a> hit two crucial, game tying home runs off of <a href="/wiki/1984_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1984 St. Louis Cardinals season">St. Louis Cardinals</a> closer <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Sutter" title="Bruce Sutter">Bruce Sutter</a> in both the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings. The Cubs would ultimately go on to win the game in eleven innings, by the score of 12–11. Bob Costas considered the Game of the Week his dream job saying "You can put a personal stamp on a baseball broadcast, be a reporter, something of a historian, a storyteller, conversationalist, dispenser of opinion."<a href="#cite_note-87">[86]</a> As champions of the National League, the <a href="/wiki/1984_San_Diego_Padres_season" title="1984 San Diego Padres season">San Diego Padres</a> had home-field advantage (at the time, the NL automatically gained home-field advantage in even years of the World Series) during the <a href="/wiki/1984_World_Series" title="1984 World Series">1984 World Series</a>. However, had the <a href="/wiki/1984_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1984 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1984_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1984 National League Championship Series">National League Championship Series</a> (which appeared likely after the Cubs took a 2–0 lead in the best-of-five series), the <a href="/wiki/1984_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1984 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> would have gained home-field advantage despite the fact the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1983_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="1983 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore Orioles</a> had it the <a href="/wiki/1983_World_Series" title="1983 World Series">season before</a>. NBC was contractually obligated to show all mid-week series games in prime time, something that would have been impossible at <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a>, since the Cubs' venerable facility lacked lights at the time (they would not install lights until <a href="/wiki/1988_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1988 Chicago Cubs season">four years later</a>). Had the Cubs advanced to the Series, Detroit would have hosted Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 (on Tuesday and Wednesday nights), while the Cubs would have hosted Games 3, 4, and 5 (on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), with all three games in Chicago starting no later than 1:30 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">Central Time</a>. Even though Game 5 of the 1984 World Series was on a Sunday afternoon, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a> (who anchored NBC's coverage with <a href="/wiki/Len_Berman" title="Len Berman">Len Berman</a>) was still in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> to host <a href="/wiki/The_NFL_on_NBC_pregame_show#NFL_(1977–1986)" title="The NFL on NBC pregame show">NFL '84</a>. At the end of the pre-game show, Costas left the New York studio to travel to <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> to cover that night's baseball game at <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)" title="Tiger Stadium (Detroit)">Tiger Stadium</a>. In the meantime, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Macatee" title="Bill Macatee">Bill Macatee</a> filled-in for Costas, providing updates and halftime highlights. Costas later interviewed the Tigers in their <a href="/wiki/Locker_room" class="mw-redirect" title="Locker room">locker room</a> that night. Game 5 of the 1984 World Series had a starting time of 4:45 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_time_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern time zone">ET</a>, following a 1:30 p.m. start for Game 4. These were the last outdoor World Series games to start earlier than <a href="/wiki/Prime_time" title="Prime time">prime time</a> in the eastern United States (Game 6 in <a href="/wiki/1987_World_Series" title="1987 World Series">1987</a>, the last daytime World Series contest, was indoors at the <a href="/wiki/Hubert_H._Humphrey_Metrodome" title="Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome">Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>). In 1985,<a href="#cite_note-88">[87]</a> NBC got a break when Major League Baseball dictated a policy that no local game could be televised at the same time that a network Game of the Week was being broadcast. Additionally, for the first time, NBC was able to feed the Game of the Week telecasts to the two cities whose local teams participated. In time, MLB teams whose Saturday games were not scheduled for the Game of the Week would move the start time of their Saturday games to avoid conflict with the NBC network game, and thus, make it available to <a href="/wiki/Historical_Major_League_Baseball_television_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical Major League Baseball television broadcasters">local television</a> in the team's home city (and the visiting team's home city as well). Also in 1985, NBC's telecast of the <a href="/wiki/1985_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> out of the <a href="/wiki/Hubert_H._Humphrey_Metrodome" title="Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome">Metrodome</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis,_Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis, Minnesota">Minnesota</a> was the first program to be broadcast in <a href="/wiki/Stereophonic_sound" title="Stereophonic sound">stereo</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[88]</a> by a television network. On Thursday, October 10, 1985, NBC didn't come on the air for Game 2<a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1985_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 National League Championship Series">NLCS</a> until 8:30 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Time Zone (North America)">ET</a> to avoid disrupting <a href="/wiki/The_Cosby_Show" title="The Cosby Show">The Cosby Show</a> at 8 (similarly to how the network aired the soap opera <a href="/wiki/Return_to_Peyton_Place_(TV_series)" title="Return to Peyton Place (TV series)">Return to Peyton Place</a>, before Game 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1972_World_Series" title="1972 World Series">1972 World Series</a>, rather than a pre-game show).<a href="#cite_note-91">[90]</a> NBC would do the same thing for Thursday night games in subsequent postseasons. <a href="/wiki/Dick_Enberg" title="Dick Enberg">Dick Enberg</a> hosted the 1985 NLCS <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball:_An_Inside_Look" title="Major League Baseball: An Inside Look">pregame shows</a> with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-92">[91]</a> It was Enberg who broke the news to most of the nation that <a href="/wiki/Vince_Coleman_(baseball)" title="Vince Coleman (baseball)">Vince Coleman</a> had been injured before Game 4. NBC even aired an interview with one of the few people who actually saw the incident, a <a href="/wiki/1985_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1985 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodger</a> batboy. Dick Enberg<a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a> was also at <a href="/wiki/Exhibition_Stadium" title="Exhibition Stadium">Exhibition Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> for Games 1 and 7<a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1985_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 American League Championship Series">1985 American League Championship Series</a> on NBC. Enberg hosted the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball:_An_Inside_Look" title="Major League Baseball: An Inside Look">pregame show</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/Rick_Dempsey" title="Rick Dempsey">Rick Dempsey</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a> (who was still active with <a href="/wiki/1985_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="1985 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore</a> at the time). Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Macatee" title="Bill Macatee">Bill Macatee</a> provided a report on Game 2 of the ALCS during the pregame of the <a href="/wiki/1985_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 National League Championship Series">NLCS</a> opener. Beginning in <a href="/wiki/1986_in_baseball" title="1986 in baseball">1986</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jon_Miller" title="Jon Miller">Jon Miller</a> would call games for NBC on their occasional doubleheader weeks. If not that, then Miller would appear on Saturday afternoon regionals the day after NBC's occasional prime time telecasts. Come the World Series that year, NBC would introduce a new theme called "Heroes". The track was composed by Steve Martin (no relation to the actor-comedian of the <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">same name</a>) of the production music factory <a href="/wiki/Universal_Production_Music" title="Universal Production Music">Killer Tracks</a>. NBC would use "Heroes" as their postseason and All-Star Game theme from 1986 to 1989, and also the Game of the Week theme for 1989. The theme itself, portrayed as serious, regal and almost reflective tone.<a href="#cite_note-Foster-96">[95]</a> Vin Scully's call of the final play in Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/1986_World_Series" title="1986 World Series">1986 World Series</a> on NBC television would quickly become an iconic one to baseball fans, with the normally calm Scully growing increasingly excited: "So the winning run is at second base, with two outs, three and two to <a href="/wiki/Mookie_Wilson" title="Mookie Wilson">Mookie Wilson</a>. [A] little roller up along first... behind the bag! It gets through <a href="/wiki/Bill_Buckner" title="Bill Buckner">Buckner</a>! Here comes <a href="/wiki/Ray_Knight" title="Ray Knight">Knight</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/1986_New_York_Mets_season" title="1986 New York Mets season">Mets</a> win it!" Scully then remained silent for more than three minutes, letting the pictures and the crowd noise tell the story. Scully resumed with "If one picture is worth a thousand words, you have seen about a million words, but more than that, you have seen an absolutely bizarre finish to Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. The Mets are not only alive, they are well; and they will play the <a href="/wiki/1986_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1986 Boston Red Sox season">Red Sox</a> in Game 7 tomorrow!" After the top of the tenth, NBC began setting up in the visiting clubhouse for what they believed was the inevitable postgame victory celebration by the Boston Red Sox. The <a href="/wiki/Commissioner%27s_Trophy_(MLB)" title="Commissioner's Trophy (MLB)">Commissioner's Trophy</a> had been brought into the Red Sox clubhouse along with several bottles of champagne, and Bob Costas was to preside over the presentation. However, after <a href="/wiki/Bob_Stanley_(baseball)" title="Bob Stanley (baseball)">Bob Stanley</a>'s wild pitch in the bottom of the tenth, everything was quickly struck and removed from the room before the Red Sox returned. Costas later recalled the removal of all the equipment for the postgame celebration as being "like a scene change in a Broadway musical. In, out, gone, not a trace." Game 6 caused the first preemption of <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a>, due to extra innings. The preempted episode would air two weeks later on November 8 (with host <a href="/wiki/Rosanna_Arquette" title="Rosanna Arquette">Rosanna Arquette</a> and musical guest <a href="/wiki/Ric_Ocasek" title="Ric Ocasek">Ric Ocasek</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Cars" title="The Cars">The Cars</a>), with an introduction by <a href="/wiki/Ron_Darling" title="Ron Darling">Ron Darling</a>, who explained that when the Mets entered the locker room, they were informed that they caused the first delay in <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_12)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturday Night Live (season 12)">SNL</a>'s 11-year history (at the time) to their dismay. NBC's broadcast of Game 7 of the 1986 World Series (which went up against a <a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday Night Football</a> game between the <a href="/wiki/1986_Washington_Redskins_season" title="1986 Washington Redskins season">Washington Redskins</a> and <a href="/wiki/1986_New_York_Giants_season" title="1986 New York Giants season">New York Giants</a> on ABC) garnered a <a href="/wiki/Nielsen_rating" class="mw-redirect" title="Nielsen rating">Nielsen rating</a> of 38.9 and a 55 share, making it the highest-<a href="/wiki/World_Series_television_ratings" title="World Series television ratings">rated</a> single World Series game to date. Game 7 had been scheduled for Sunday, but a rain-out forced the game to Monday. NBC's telecast of the Series ended with the song "Limelight" from <a href="/wiki/Stereotomy" title="Stereotomy">Stereotomy</a>, penultimate album of <a href="/wiki/The_Alan_Parsons_Project" title="The Alan Parsons Project">The Alan Parsons Project</a>. NBC used <a href="/wiki/Don_Sutton" title="Don Sutton">Don Sutton</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[97]</a> as a pre- and post-game analyst for their 1987 League Championship Series coverage.<a href="#cite_note-99">[98]</a> Sutton also made an appearance in the booth during Game 3 of the ALCS. Sutton talked with Bob Costas and Tony Kubek about <a href="/wiki/1987_Minnesota_Twins_season" title="1987 Minnesota Twins season">Twins</a> pitcher <a href="/wiki/Les_Straker" title="Les Straker">Les Straker</a>'s borderline <a href="/wiki/Balk" title="Balk">balk</a> in that game. Sutton later interviewed <a href="/wiki/1987_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1987 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> manager <a href="/wiki/Sparky_Anderson" title="Sparky Anderson">Sparky Anderson</a> following their loss in Game 5.<a href="#cite_note-100">[99]</a> Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Marv_Albert" title="Marv Albert">Marv Albert</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a> went back-and-forth during both 1987 LCS.<a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a> He hosted the pregame for Game 1<a href="#cite_note-104">[103]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1987_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1987 National League Championship Series">NLCS</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[104]</a> with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a>, and in fact had to read the lineups to the viewing audience. There was a problem with the P.A. feed at <a href="/wiki/Busch_Memorial_Stadium" title="Busch Memorial Stadium">Busch Memorial Stadium</a> in St. Louis, so he ended up reading the script from the <a href="/wiki/1987_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1987 St. Louis Cardinals season">Cardinal</a> dugout while the players were introduced to the crowd. He then went to Minneapolis the next night to host the <a href="/wiki/1987_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1987 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a> pregame with Don Sutton at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Cefalo" title="Jimmy Cefalo">Jimmy Cefalo</a> hosted the pregame coverage for Game 5 of the NLCS, as Marv Albert was away on a <a href="/wiki/Boxing_on_NBC" title="Boxing on NBC">boxing</a> assignment for NBC. <a href="/wiki/Jay_Randolph" title="Jay Randolph">Jay Randolph</a>,<a href="#cite_note-106">[105]</a> who was also the sports director for St. Louis NBC affiliate <a href="/wiki/KSDK" title="KSDK">KSDK</a>,<a href="#cite_note-107">[106]</a> interviewed the winners in the <a href="/wiki/1987_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1987 St. Louis Cardinals season">St. Louis Cardinals</a>' clubhouse following their Game 7 victory.<a href="#cite_note-108">[107]</a> Also following Game 7, NBC's Marv Albert interviewed <a href="/wiki/League_Championship_Series_Most_Valuable_Player_Award#National_League_winners" title="League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award">1987 NLCS MVP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Leonard" title="Jeffrey Leonard">Jeffrey Leonard</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1987_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1987 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a> (to date, the last person from the losing team to win a postseason series Most Valuable Player Award, either League Championship Series or World Series). Ratings for the Game of the Week had dropped from an average of 6.1 in <a href="/wiki/1984_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1984 Major League Baseball season">1984</a> to 5.5 in <a href="/wiki/1988_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1988 Major League Baseball season">1988</a> and an average of 4.8 by July <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">1989</a>. According to a Major League Baseball report, an average of fewer than five million households viewed the Saturday afternoon Game of the Week in 1988.<a href="#cite_note-109">[108]</a> In an effort to push the ratings higher, NBC tried to feature a club from one of the major media markets.<a href="#cite_note-110">[109]</a> Of the 32 games it aired during 1988, only three did not feature a club from New York City, Chicago, or Los Angeles.<a href="#cite_note-111">[110]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="1988_World_Series_and_1989_All-Star_Game_and_League_Championship_Series">1988 World Series and 1989 All-Star Game and League Championship Series</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1988 World Series and 1989 All-Star Game and League Championship Series">edit</a>]</div> As previously mentioned, longtime <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>' <a href="/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_broadcasters" title="List of Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasters">broadcaster</a> Vin Scully<a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a> called the <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Series" title="1988 World Series">1988 World Series</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[112]</a> for a national television audience on NBC with Joe Garagiola. Unknown to the fans and the media at the time, <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Gibson" title="Kirk Gibson">Kirk Gibson</a> was watching the game on television while undergoing physical therapy in the <a href="/wiki/1988_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1988 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodgers</a>' clubhouse.<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-114">[113]</a> At some point during the game, television cameras scanned the Dodgers <a href="/wiki/Dugout_(baseball)" title="Dugout (baseball)">dugout</a> and Scully, observed that Gibson was nowhere to be found.<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-114">[113]</a> This spurred Gibson to tell Dodgers <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a> <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Lasorda" title="Tommy Lasorda">Tommy Lasorda</a> that he was available to <a href="/wiki/Pinch_hitter" title="Pinch hitter">pinch hit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-114">[113]</a> Gibson immediately returned to the <a href="/wiki/Batting_cage" title="Batting cage">batting cage</a> in the clubhouse to take practice swings.<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-114">[113]</a> While Kirk Gibson was taking practice swings in the Dodgers' clubhouse during Game 1, <a href="/wiki/Orel_Hershiser" title="Orel Hershiser">Orel Hershiser</a> set up the hitting tee for his teammate. Along the way, Bob Costas could hear Gibson's agonized-sounding grunts after every hit.<a href="#cite_note-115">[114]</a> The following is Vin Scully's call of <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Gibson%27s_1988_World_Series_home_run" title="Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run">Kirk Gibson's game inning home run in Game 1</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[116]</a> of the 1988 World Series<a href="#cite_note-118">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[118]</a> of the 1988 World Series: "All <a href="/wiki/1988_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1988 Los Angeles Dodgers season">year</a> long, they looked to him to light the fire, [Scully began] and all year long, he answered the demands, until he was physically unable to start tonight – with two bad legs: The bad left <a href="/wiki/Hamstring" title="Hamstring">hamstring</a>, and the swollen right knee. And, with two out, you talk about a roll of the dice... this is it." Scully made repeated references to Gibson's legs, noting at one point that the batter was "shaking his left leg, making it quiver, like a horse trying to get rid of a troublesome fly." Gibson worked the count to 3–2 as <a href="/wiki/Mike_Davis_(baseball)" title="Mike Davis (baseball)">Mike Davis</a> stole second base; the camera turned at that point to <a href="/wiki/Steve_Sax" title="Steve Sax">Steve Sax</a> getting ready for his turn at the plate, and Scully reminded the viewers that Sax was waiting on deck, but that the game right now is at the plate. "High fly ball into right field, she i-i-i-is... gone!!" Scully said nothing for over a minute, allowing the pictures to tell the story. Finally, he said, "In a year that has been so improbable... the impossible has happened!" Returning to the subject of Gibson's banged-up legs during a replay, Scully joked, "And, now, the only question was, could he make it around the base paths unassisted?!" "You know, I said it once before, a few days ago, that Kirk Gibson was not the Most Valuable Player; that the Most Valuable Player for the Dodgers was <a href="/wiki/Tinker_Bell" title="Tinker Bell">Tinkerbell</a>. But, tonight, I think Tinkerbell backed off for Kirk Gibson. And, look at <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Eckersley" title="Dennis Eckersley">Eckersley</a> – shocked to his toes!" "They are going wild at Dodger Stadium – no one wants to leave!" As NBC showed a replay of Gibson rounding second base in his home run trot, Scully then made a point to note Eckersley's pitching performance throughout the <a href="/wiki/1988_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="1988 Oakland Athletics season">1988 season</a>, to put things in perspective. "Dennis Eckersley allowed five home runs all year. And we'll be back." During Game 1 in the second inning, NBC affiliate <a href="/wiki/WMGT-TV" title="WMGT-TV">WMGT-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Macon,_Georgia" title="Macon, Georgia">Macon, Georgia</a> was hijacked for 10 seconds replacing parts of the second inning with an <a href="/wiki/Adult_movie" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult movie">adult movie</a>. The technician was later fired, and production manager L. A. Sturdivant reported to <a href="/wiki/The_Atlanta_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="The Atlanta Constitution">The Atlanta Constitution</a> at the incident was an accident.<a href="#cite_note-120">[119]</a> Bob Costas, who, along with Marv Albert, hosted NBC's 1988 World Series pre-game coverage and handled post-game interviews, later made on-air statements that enraged many in the Dodgers' clubhouse (especially Tommy Lasorda). Before the start of Game 4, Costas said that the Dodgers quite possibly were about to put up the weakest-hitting lineup in World Series history.<a href="#cite_note-121">[120]</a> That comment ironically fired up the competitive spirit of the Dodgers. After the Dodgers won Game 4, Lasorda (during a post-game interview with Marv Albert) sarcastically said that the MVP of the World Series should be Bob Costas. Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Series" title="1988 World Series">1988 World Series</a>, was scheduled to start at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, October 22, but that game wasn't necessary. This is the last time a World Series game was scheduled outside of prime time. The 1988 World Series also marked the last time that NBC<a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a> would televise a World Series for seven years. Beginning in <a href="/wiki/1990_in_baseball" title="1990 in baseball">1990</a>, NBC would be shut out of <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_television_contracts" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball television contracts">Major League Baseball coverage</a> completely, after <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS#1990–1993_version" title="Major League Baseball on CBS">CBS</a> signed a four-year, exclusive television contract. After splitting coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1995_World_Series" title="1995 World Series">1995 World Series</a> with ABC, NBC would next cover a World Series exclusively in 1997. Over a highlight montage at the end of their coverage of the decisive fifth game of the 1988 World Series, NBC played the song "<a href="/wiki/One_Moment_in_Time" title="One Moment in Time">One Moment in Time</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Whitney_Houston" title="Whitney Houston">Whitney Houston</a>. On Saturday, June 3, 1989, Vin Scully was doing the play-by-play for the NBC Game of the Week in <a href="/wiki/Busch_Memorial_Stadium" title="Busch Memorial Stadium">St. Louis</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/1989_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1989 St. Louis Cardinals season">Cardinals</a> beat the <a href="/wiki/1989_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1989 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a> in 10 innings. Meanwhile, the <a href="/wiki/1989_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1989 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Dodgers</a> were playing a series in <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Houston</a>, where Scully flew to be on hand to call the Sunday game of the series. However, the Saturday night game between the teams was going into extra innings when Scully arrived in town, so he went to the Astrodome instead of his hotel. He picked up the play-by-play, helping to relieve the other Dodger announcers, who were doing both television and radio, and broadcast the final 13 innings (after already calling 10 innings in St. Louis), as the game went 22 innings. He broadcast 23 innings in one day in two different cities. As previously mentioned, former <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> (who had just left office) served as the color commentator<a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a> instead of Tom Seaver<a href="#cite_note-124">[123]</a> (Vin Scully's normal NBC broadcasting partner at the time) for the first inning<a href="#cite_note-125">[124]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1989 All-Star Game</a> from Anaheim.<a href="#cite_note-126">[125]</a><a href="#cite_note-127">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-128">[127]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bo_Jackson" title="Bo Jackson">Bo Jackson</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> became a popular figure for his athleticism in multiple sports through the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as a spokesman for <a href="/wiki/Nike,_Inc." title="Nike, Inc.">Nike</a> and was involved in a popular ad campaign called "<a href="/wiki/Bo_Knows" title="Bo Knows">Bo Knows</a>" which envisioned Jackson attempting to take up a litany of other sports, including <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">tennis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golf" title="Golf">golf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luge" title="Luge">luge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Auto_racing" title="Auto racing">auto racing</a>, and even playing <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> music with <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a>, who scolded Jackson by telling him, "You don't know diddley!"<a href="#cite_note-bo3-130">[129]</a> (in a later version of the spot, Jackson is shown playing the guitar expertly, after which an impressed Diddley says, "Bo...you do know Diddley, don't you?") Serendipitously, the original spot first aired during the commercial break immediately following Jackson's lead-off home run in the <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game</a> (as Vin Scully exclaimed, "Look at that one! Bo Jackson says hello!"). <a href="/wiki/CTV_Television_Network" title="CTV Television Network">CTV</a> would <a href="/wiki/Simulcast" title="Simulcast">simulcast</a> NBC Game of the Week telecasts of <a href="/wiki/1989_Toronto_Blue_Jays_season" title="1989 Toronto Blue Jays season">Toronto Blue Jays</a> games, such as NBC's final Game of the Week telecast<a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-134">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-135">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[135]</a> on September 30, 1989,<a href="#cite_note-137">[136]</a> where the Blue Jays clinched the <a href="/wiki/American_League_East" title="American League East">American League East</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[137]</a> against the <a href="/wiki/1989_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="1989 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore Orioles</a>.<a href="#cite_note-139">[138]</a><a href="#cite_note-140">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[140]</a> Meanwhile, in the latter part of his career, <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> umpire <a href="/wiki/Doug_Harvey_(umpire)" title="Doug Harvey (umpire)">Doug Harvey</a> became known for appearing in the "You Make the Call" segments on NBC's Game of the Week telecasts.<a href="#cite_note-142">[141]</a> Then <a href="/wiki/1989_Texas_Rangers_season" title="1989 Texas Rangers season">Texas Rangers</a> manager <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Valentine" title="Bobby Valentine">Bobby Valentine</a><a href="#cite_note-143">[142]</a> worked as an on-the-field analyst for NBC's <a href="/wiki/1989_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 American League Championship Series">1989 ALCS</a> coverage.<a href="#cite_note-144">[143]</a> Likewise, recently retired <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> legend <a href="/wiki/Mike_Schmidt" title="Mike Schmidt">Mike Schmidt</a> did the same for the <a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">NLCS</a>. Vin Scully<a href="#cite_note-145">[144]</a> was unable to call Game 2 of the <a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">1989 National League Championship Series</a> because he was suffering from <a href="/wiki/Laryngitis" title="Laryngitis">laryngitis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-146">[145]</a> As a result, secondary play-by-play announcer Bob Costas<a href="#cite_note-147">[146]</a> filled in for him. Around the same time, Costas<a href="#cite_note-148">[147]</a> was assigned to call the <a href="/wiki/1989_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 American League Championship Series">American League Championship Series</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[148]</a> between <a href="/wiki/1989_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="1989 Oakland Athletics season">Oakland</a> and <a href="/wiki/1989_Toronto_Blue_Jays_season" title="1989 Toronto Blue Jays season">Toronto</a>. Game 2 of the NLCS occurred on Thursday, October 5, which was an <a href="/wiki/Bye_(sports)" title="Bye (sports)">off day</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[149]</a> for the ALCS. NBC then decided to fly Costas from Toronto to Chicago to substitute for Scully on Thursday night. Afterwards, Costas flew back to Toronto, where he resumed work on the ALCS the next night. Jimmy Cefalo hosted the pregame show for Game 4 of the <a href="/wiki/1989_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 American League Championship Series">1989 ALCS</a> as Marv Albert was away on an <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NFL</a> assignment for NBC. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_end_of_an_era">The end of an era</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: The end of an era">edit</a>]</div> After calling the <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Series" title="1988 World Series">1988 World Series</a> with Vin Scully, Joe Garagiola resigned<a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a> from NBC Sports.<a href="#cite_note-152">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[152]</a><a href="#cite_note-154">[153]</a> Although it was not official at the time, NBC was on the verge of losing the television rights to cover Major League Baseball to <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS" title="Major League Baseball on CBS">CBS</a>.<a href="#cite_note-155">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-156">[155]</a><a href="#cite_note-157">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[157]</a> Garagiola claimed that NBC left him "twisting" while he was trying to renegotiate his deal. Joe Garagiola was replaced by Tom Seaver<a href="#cite_note-159">[158]</a><a href="#cite_note-160">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[160]</a> for the <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">1989 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-162">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-163">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-164">[163]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[164]</a><a href="#cite_note-166">[165]</a> On December 14, 1988, CBS<a href="#cite_note-167">[166]</a> (under the guidance of <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball_(MLB)" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of Baseball (MLB)">Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Ueberroth" title="Peter Ueberroth">Peter Ueberroth</a>,<a href="#cite_note-168">[167]</a><a href="#cite_note-169">[168]</a><a href="#cite_note-170">[169]</a> Major League Baseball's broadcast director Bryan Burns,<a href="#cite_note-NYT-CBS-171">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-172">[171]</a><a href="#cite_note-173">[172]</a> CBS Inc. <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a> <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Tisch" title="Laurence Tisch">Laurence Tisch</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[174]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[176]</a> as well as CBS Sports executives Neal Pilson<a href="#cite_note-178">[177]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Einhorn" title="Eddie Einhorn">Eddie Einhorn</a>) paid approximately US$1.8 billion (equivalent to 2.65 billion in 2024)<a href="#cite_note-NYT-CBS-171">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-LATimes-CBS-179">[178]</a> for exclusive over-the-air television rights for over four years (beginning in <a href="/wiki/1990_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1990 Major League Baseball season">1990</a>). CBS paid about $265 million each year<a href="#cite_note-180">[179]</a> for the <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a>, <a href="/wiki/League_Championship_Series" title="League Championship Series">League Championship Series</a>, <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a>, and the Saturday Game of the Week. It was one of the largest agreements<a href="#cite_note-181">[180]</a> (to date) between the sport of baseball and the business of <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting" title="Broadcasting">broadcasting</a>. The cost of the deal between CBS and Major League Baseball was about 25% more<a href="#cite_note-182">[181]</a> than in the previous television contract with ABC and NBC.<a href="#cite_note-183">[182]</a> NBC's final Major League Baseball broadcast was televised on October 9, 1989; Game 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">National League Championship Series</a><a href="#cite_note-184">[183]</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1989_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1989 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/1989_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1989 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a> from <a href="/wiki/Candlestick_Park" title="Candlestick Park">Candlestick Park</a>. Vin Scully said <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">It's a passing of a great American tradition. It is sad. I really and truly feel that. It will leave a vast window, to use a <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a><a href="#cite_note-185">[184]</a> word, where people will not get Major League Baseball and I think that's a tragedy. It's a staple that's gone. I feel for people who come to me and say how they miss it,<a href="#cite_note-186">[185]</a> and I hope me.</blockquote> When Cubs shortstop <a href="/wiki/Ryne_Sandberg" title="Ryne Sandberg">Ryne Sandberg</a> made the final out of Game 5 off of Giants closer <a href="/wiki/Steve_Bedrosian" title="Steve Bedrosian">Steve Bedrosian</a> and Giants first baseman <a href="/wiki/Will_Clark" title="Will Clark">Will Clark</a> ultimately caught it, Scully said <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><a href="/wiki/Breaking_ball" title="Breaking ball">Breaking ball</a> hit to <a href="/wiki/Robby_Thompson" title="Robby Thompson">Robby Thompson</a> … and that's it!</blockquote> Bob Costas<a href="#cite_note-187">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a><a href="#cite_note-189">[188]</a> said that he would rather do a Game of the Week that got a 5 rating than host a <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowl</a>.<a href="#cite_note-190">[189]</a> "Who thought baseball killed its best way to reach the public? It coulda kept us and CBS<a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a> – we'd have kept the 'Game'<a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a> – but it only cared about cash. Whatever else I did, I'd never have left 'Game of the Week' Costas claimed. Tony Kubek,<a href="#cite_note-193">[192]</a> who (as previously mentioned) teamed with Bob Costas since 1983, said "I can't believe it!" when the subject came about NBC losing baseball for the first time since 1947. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Alright, our thanks to <a href="/wiki/Marv_Albert" title="Marv Albert">Marv Albert</a> and my personal thanks for the last seven years to <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a>. He made it easy, he made it fun...24 years with <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> broadcasting baseball, immediately after he retired from the <a href="/wiki/1965_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1965 New York Yankees season">Yankees in 1965</a>, helping them to all those <a href="/wiki/List_of_American_League_pennant_winners" title="List of American League pennant winners">pennants</a>, right into the broadcast booth. He immediately became an institution in American baseball broadcasting and we're all...going to miss him. <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Seaver" title="Tom Seaver">Tom Seaver</a> will take you the rest of the way in the <a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">National League series</a> and then a week or so down the road, our very best wishes to our buddies and colleagues at <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_ABC" title="Major League Baseball on ABC">ABC</a>: <a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_McCarver" title="Tim McCarver">Tim McCarver</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Palmer" title="Jim Palmer">Jim Palmer</a> for the <a href="/wiki/1989_World_Series" title="1989 World Series">World Series</a>. A World Series that for the second year in a row...will feature <a href="/wiki/Tony_La_Russa" title="Tony La Russa">Tony La Russa</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1989_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="1989 Oakland Athletics season">Oakland A's</a>, back-to-back winners...of the American League pennant. Congratulations to both the <a href="/wiki/1989_Toronto_Blue_Jays_season" title="1989 Toronto Blue Jays season">Blue Jays</a> and the A's for outstanding <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">seasons</a>. And from the <a href="/wiki/Rogers_Centre" title="Rogers Centre">SkyDome</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>...for now at least...so long!<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a> at the end of NBC's coverage of Game 5 of the <a href="/wiki/1989_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 American League Championship Series">1989 American League Championship Series</a> on October 8, 1989. This was not only Costas' final broadcast with Tony Kubek, but his final broadcast of a Major League Baseball game on NBC until the <a href="/wiki/1994_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1994 All-Star Game</a> from <a href="/wiki/Three_Rivers_Stadium" title="Three Rivers Stadium">Pittsburgh</a>.</cite></div></blockquote> Author and presidential <a href="/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter">speechwriter</a> <a href="/wiki/Curt_Smith_(author)" title="Curt Smith (author)">Curt Smith</a> went a step further in saying that Major League Baseball's deal with CBS Sports was "sportscasting's <a href="/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill" title="Exxon Valdez oil spill">Exxon Valdez</a>." Had baseball valued national promotion provided by the Game of the Week, said Smith, it never would have crafted a fast-bucks plan that has cut off the widest viewership. "It's an obscene imbalance", Smith also said, "to have 175 games going to 60 percent of the country [in reference to Major League Baseball's corresponding cable television deal with <a href="/wiki/ESPN_Major_League_Baseball" title="ESPN Major League Baseball">ESPN</a>, which at the time was only available in about 60% of the country] and 16 games going to the rest." He added: "Baseball has paid a grievous price for being out of sight and out of mind. It's attacked the lower and middle classes that forms baseball's heart. ... In the end, the advertising community has come to view baseball as a leper."<a href="#cite_note-194">[193]</a> Arthur Watson, president of NBC Sports, said in a statement that NBC had "aggressively" bid to continue its 41-year involvement in baseball (NBC's bid was reportedly in the $800 million range<a href="#cite_note-195">[194]</a> in contrast to CBS' bid of $1.08 billion) and was "deeply saddened" when learning of CBS' deal.<a href="#cite_note-196">[195]</a> One possible key factor towards why NBC lost the baseball package to CBS was due to their commitment to <a href="/wiki/NBC_Olympic_broadcasts" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC Olympic broadcasts">broadcasting</a> the <a href="/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics" title="1992 Summer Olympics">1992 Summer Olympics</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a> from <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>. To put things into proper perspective, two weeks prior to the announcement of the baseball deal with CBS, NBC had committed itself to paying $401 million for U.S. broadcast rights to the 1992 Summer Olympics. After the baseball deal was announced, some skeptics surmised that CBS had lowballed the Barcelona bidding so that it would have at least $1 billion to spend on baseball. On that end, Marv Albert considered NBC's loss of the baseball rights to CBS a disappointment because they had just won the rights to televise the 1992 Olympic Games from Barcelona. Albert also told <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a><a href="#cite_note-198">[197]</a> in August 1989 that from NBC's point of view, it would come down to three major negotiations that would take place in the fall of that year. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_NBC" title="NBA on NBC">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA),<a href="#cite_note-199">[198]</a> the <a href="/wiki/College_Basketball_on_NBC" class="mw-redirect" title="College Basketball on NBC">NCAA basketball</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament_Final_Four_broadcasters" title="List of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four broadcasters">tournament</a> and some <a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Football_on_NBC" title="Notre Dame Football on NBC">college football</a>. Albert also agreed with the notion regarding whether the average fan would be shut out of Major League Baseball with only 12 Saturday afternoon games being televised by CBS. He added that the then present major league regime might not have agreed to the same package. According to him, Major League Baseball, similar to the NBA, felt that limited exposure would be better for the game. In Albert's eyes, what CBS was doing was televising the regular season for the delight of carrying the All-Star Game, the playoffs and the World Series. According to industry insiders, neither NBC nor ABC wanted the entire baseball package—that is, regular-season games, both League Championship Series and the World Series—because such a commitment would have required them to preempt too many highly rated prime time shows. Thus, ABC and NBC bid thinking that two of the networks might share postseason play again or that one of the championship series might wind up on cable. Peter Ueberroth had encouraged the cable idea, but after the bids were opened, NBC and ABC found to their chagrin that he preferred network exposure for all postseason games. Only CBS, with its weak prime time programming, dared go for that. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Since this is indeed...a sad moment for us as we sever our relationship with baseball...for a while at least, we would like to ask your indulgence and let us take this time to thank a lot of people!<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Vin Scully prior to reading off the credits for NBC's <a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">1989 NLCS</a> coverage following the <a href="/wiki/1989_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="1989 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a>' pennant clinching victory against the <a href="/wiki/1989_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1989 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a>.</cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">And to all of the marvelous and wonderful cameramen and technicians who have represented NBC...over the 42 years of baseball broadcasts...and I think that can sum it up, each and everyone of us...we gave it our best shot! As did the Giants and the Cubs! And it's the Giants who go to the <a href="/wiki/1989_World_Series" title="1989 World Series">World Series</a>, beating the Cubs 3 to 2. And we get the <a href="/wiki/Bay_Bridge_Series" title="Bay Bridge Series">BART Series</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit" title="Bay Area Rapid Transit">Bay Area Rapid Transit</a>, the series that will be played in memory of <a href="/wiki/Bart_Giamatti" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart Giamatti">A. Bartlett Giamatti</a>. There's a sweetness to that thought! It's over for us...time to surrender the stage...and the Giants have won the pennant! For Tom Seaver and for <a href="/wiki/Mike_Schmidt" title="Mike Schmidt">Mike Schmidt</a>, this is Vin Scully saying so long...for the last time...from <a href="/wiki/Candlestick_Park" title="Candlestick Park">San Francisco</a>!<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Vin Scully's final words as NBC signs off from its Major League Baseball coverage for the final time on October 9, <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">1989</a>.<a href="#cite_note-200">[199]</a></cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">To those of you at NBC, for 41 years you made this an art form! And to people especially like <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy Sr.</a>, the fabulous announcer...to the Hall of Fame director Harry Coyle...and down through the years...to Tony Kubek and the people of the present like Bob Costas and all the men and women at NBC, at the peacock...take a bow, you were terrific!<a href="#cite_note-201">[200]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_ABC" title="Major League Baseball on ABC">ABC</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a> eulogizing NBC at the end of ABC's coverage of Game 4 the <a href="/wiki/1989_World_Series" title="1989 World Series">1989 World Series</a>.<a href="#cite_note-202">[201]</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Aftermath">edit</a>]</div> After NBC lost the Major League Baseball package to CBS, NBC aggressively counterprogrammed (like ABC)<a href="#cite_note-203">[202]</a><a href="#cite_note-204">[203]</a> CBS's postseason baseball coverage with <a href="/wiki/Television_film" title="Television film">made-for-TV movies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miniseries" title="Miniseries">miniseries</a> geared towards female viewers.<a href="#cite_note-205">[204]</a> NBC also attempted<a href="#cite_note-206">[205]</a> to fill the void left by baseball<a href="#cite_note-207">[206]</a> by arranging<a href="#cite_note-208">[207]</a> with the <a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">National Hockey League</a> (NHL) to <a href="/wiki/NHL_on_NBC" title="NHL on NBC">broadcast</a> their annual <a href="/wiki/41st_National_Hockey_League_All-Star_Game" title="41st National Hockey League All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a>.<a href="#cite_note-209">[208]</a> And almost exactly one month after<a href="#cite_note-210">[209]</a><a href="#cite_note-211">[210]</a> NBC's final baseball telecast, NBC<a href="#cite_note-212">[211]</a> officially announced a four-year,<a href="#cite_note-213">[212]</a> $600 million deal<a href="#cite_note-214">[213]</a><a href="#cite_note-215">[214]</a><a href="#cite_note-216">[215]</a> with the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA),<a href="#cite_note-217">[216]</a> succeeding <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_CBS" title="NBA on CBS">CBS</a> as the NBA's network television partner. Following his brief tenure as NBC's lead baseball analyst, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Seaver" title="Tom Seaver">Tom Seaver</a> worked as an analyst for <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>' <a href="/wiki/List_of_New_York_Yankees_broadcasters" title="List of New York Yankees broadcasters">telecasts</a> on <a href="/wiki/WPIX" title="WPIX">WPIX</a> until <a href="/wiki/1993_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1993 New York Yankees season">1993</a> and for <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>' <a href="/wiki/List_of_New_York_Mets_broadcasters" title="List of New York Mets broadcasters">telecasts</a> on WPIX from <a href="/wiki/1999_New_York_Mets_season" title="1999 New York Mets season">1999</a> to <a href="/wiki/2005_New_York_Mets_season" title="2005 New York Mets season">2005</a>, making him one of three sportscasters to be regular announcers for both teams; the others are <a href="/wiki/Fran_Healy_(baseball)" title="Fran Healy (baseball)">Fran Healy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tim_McCarver" title="Tim McCarver">Tim McCarver</a>. When NBC lost its baseball <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_television_contracts#Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS-TV:_1990–1993" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball television contracts">TV rights</a> to <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS#1990–1993_version" title="Major League Baseball on CBS">CBS</a> after the 1989 season, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a> left the national scene, joining the Yankees' local cable-TV announcing team. Kubek spent five years calling games for the Yankees (<a href="/wiki/1990_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1990 New York Yankees season">1990</a>–<a href="/wiki/1994_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1994 New York Yankees season">1994</a>) on the <a href="/wiki/MSG_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="MSG (TV network)">MSG Network</a> with <a href="/wiki/Dewayne_Staats" title="Dewayne Staats">Dewayne Staats</a>, where he earned fans and critics' respect for his honesty. After the National League Championship Series in 1989, <a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a>'s NBC contract was up and he left to focus primarily on his duties with the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. Scully eventually returned to being the national radio announcer for the <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a>, since CBS Radio gave him the position that <a href="/wiki/Jack_Buck" title="Jack Buck">Jack Buck</a> had vacated in order to become the primary announcer of CBS's television coverage of Major League Baseball. Scully's first assignment was the <a href="/wiki/1990_World_Series" title="1990 World Series">1990 World Series</a> and he remained in that role until 1997,<a href="#cite_note-218">[217]</a> working with <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a> for the first four years and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Torborg" title="Jeff Torborg">Jeff Torborg</a> for the final three. After leaving NBC Sports after the <a href="/wiki/1988_World_Series" title="1988 World Series">1988 World Series</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola" title="Joe Garagiola">Joe Garagiola</a> spent one season (<a href="/wiki/1990_California_Angels_season" title="1990 California Angels season">1990</a>) as a <a href="/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States" title="Cable television in the United States">cable</a>-television <a href="/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Angels_broadcasters" title="List of Los Angeles Angels broadcasters">commentator</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels" title="Los Angeles Angels">California Angels</a>. From <a href="/wiki/1998_Arizona_Diamondbacks_season" title="1998 Arizona Diamondbacks season">1998</a> to <a href="/wiki/2010_Arizona_Diamondbacks_season" title="2010 Arizona Diamondbacks season">2012</a>, he performed part-time color commentary duties for the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Diamondbacks" title="Arizona Diamondbacks">Arizona Diamondbacks</a>, where his son <a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola_Jr." title="Joe Garagiola Jr.">Joe Jr.</a> was general manager. On July 21, 1990, approximately ten months after its final Major League Baseball telecast, NBC aired an amateur baseball game between the <a href="/wiki/United_States_national_baseball_team" title="United States national baseball team">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cuba_national_baseball_team" title="Cuba national baseball team">Cuba</a> from <a href="/wiki/Estadio_Latinoamericano" title="Estadio Latinoamericano">Estadio Latinoamericano</a><a href="#cite_note-219">[218]</a> in <a href="/wiki/Havana,_Cuba" class="mw-redirect" title="Havana, Cuba">Havana, Cuba</a><a href="#cite_note-220">[219]</a> as part of the Saturday Sports Showcase<a href="#cite_note-221">[220]</a> <a href="/wiki/Anthology_series" title="Anthology series">anthology series</a>. Bob Costas<a href="#cite_note-222">[221]</a><a href="#cite_note-223">[222]</a> returned to provide play-by-play alongside former <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> manager <a href="/wiki/Davey_Johnson" title="Davey Johnson">Davey Johnson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-224">[223]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Baseball_Network_(1994–95)">The Baseball Network (1994–95)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: The Baseball Network (1994–95)">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network" title="The Baseball Network">The Baseball Network</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network_announcers" title="The Baseball Network announcers">The Baseball Network announcers</a></div> After a four-year hiatus with CBS being the exclusive MLB over-the-air broadcaster, ABC and NBC<a href="#cite_note-225">[224]</a> returned to Major League Baseball under the umbrella of a <a href="/wiki/Revenue" title="Revenue">revenue</a> sharing venture called "<a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network" title="The Baseball Network">The Baseball Network</a>". While ABC and NBC would provide some production personnel and their own announcers<a href="#cite_note-226">[225]</a><a href="#cite_note-227">[226]</a> for the games,<a href="#cite_note-228">[227]</a><a href="#cite_note-229">[228]</a> all of would be coordinated from the office of Ken Schanzer,<a href="#cite_note-230">[229]</a><a href="#cite_note-231">[230]</a><a href="#cite_note-232">[231]</a> the chief executive officer of The Baseball Network and former executive vice president for <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a>. The graphics, camera placements, and audio quality were intended on looking and sounding about the same on both networks. The Baseball Network kicked off its coverage on July 12, 1994,<a href="#cite_note-233">[232]</a> with the <a href="/wiki/1994_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a><a href="#cite_note-234">[233]</a><a href="#cite_note-235">[234]</a> out of <a href="/wiki/Three_Rivers_Stadium" title="Three Rivers Stadium">Three Rivers Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>. The game was televised on NBC with Bob Costas, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Uecker" title="Bob Uecker">Bob Uecker</a><a href="#cite_note-236">[235]</a> calling the action, and <a href="/wiki/Greg_Gumbel" title="Greg Gumbel">Greg Gumbel</a> hosting the pre-game show. Helping with the interviews were <a href="/wiki/Hannah_Storm" title="Hannah Storm">Hannah Storm</a> and <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a>. The 1994 All-Star Game reportedly sold out all its advertising slots; this was considered an impressive financial accomplishment, given that one 30-second spot cost $300,000. After the All-Star Game, NBC was scheduled to televise six regular season games on Fridays or Saturdays in prime time. The networks had exclusive rights for the twelve regular season dates, in that no regional or national cable service or over-the-air broadcaster may telecast a Major League Baseball game on those dates. In even-numbered years, NBC would have the rights to the All-Star Game and both League Championship Series, while ABC would have the World Series and newly created Division Series.<a href="#cite_note-237">[236]</a> In odd-numbered years, the postseason and All-Star Game television rights were supposed to alternate. The long-term plans for The Baseball Network crumbled when the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Players%27_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball Players' Association">Major League Baseball Players' Association</a> went on <a href="/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_Major_League_Baseball_strike" title="1994–95 Major League Baseball strike">strike</a><a href="#cite_note-238">[237]</a> on August 12, 1994 (thus forcing the cancellation of the <a href="/wiki/1994_World_Series" title="1994 World Series">World Series</a><a href="#cite_note-239">[238]</a>). Consequently, NBC was unable<a href="#cite_note-240">[239]</a> to air its slate of games,<a href="#cite_note-241">[240]</a><a href="#cite_note-242">[241]</a><a href="#cite_note-243">[242]</a><a href="#cite_note-244">[243]</a><a href="#cite_note-245">[244]</a> which were supposed to begin on August 26.<a href="#cite_note-246">[245]</a><a href="#cite_note-247">[246]</a> Therefore, the All-Star Game was NBC's sole baseball broadcast in 1994. Meanwhile, another consequence of the strike was that <a href="/wiki/Dick_Enberg" title="Dick Enberg">Dick Enberg</a>,<a href="#cite_note-248">[247]</a> who was supposed to be the secondary play-by-play announcer in 1994 for NBC was unable to participate by the following season, due to his other commitments for NBC such as <a href="/wiki/Golf_Channel_on_NBC" class="mw-redirect" title="Golf Channel on NBC">golf</a> and <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">football</a>.<a href="#cite_note-249">[248]</a> As a result, his slot was taken by Greg Gumbel, who was also the secondary play-by-play man for CBS (behind <a href="/wiki/Sean_McDonough" title="Sean McDonough">Sean McDonough</a>) during their final season of broadcasting Major League Baseball games in 1993. When the question aroused<a href="#cite_note-250">[249]</a> regarding why NBC didn't rehire Costas' old broadcast partner, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a> (for whom Costas worked with on the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Game of the Week</a> and NBC's bi-yearly coverage of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_American_League_Championship_Series_broadcasters" title="List of American League Championship Series broadcasters">ALCS</a> from <a href="/wiki/1983_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1983 American League Championship Series">1983</a>–<a href="/wiki/1989_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 American League Championship Series">1989</a>), it was insinuated that Kubek was simply too independent-minded for NBC officials to tolerate. According to Costas, while he originally wanted to work with Kubek again, NBC simply wanted to go into a different direction after being away from baseball for nearly five years. In July 1995, ABC and NBC, which wound up having to share the duties of televising the <a href="/wiki/1995_World_Series" title="1995 World Series">1995 World Series</a><a href="#cite_note-Pergament-251">[250]</a> as a way to recoup (with ABC broadcasting Games 1, 4 and 5, and NBC broadcasting Games 2<a href="#cite_note-252">[251]</a> 3,<a href="#cite_note-253">[252]</a> and 6<a href="#cite_note-254">[253]</a>), announced that they were opting out of their agreement with Major League Baseball. Both networks figured that as the delayed 1995 baseball season<a href="#cite_note-255">[254]</a> opened without a labor agreement, there was no guarantee against another strike. Both networks soon publicly vowed to cut all ties with Major League Baseball for the remainder of the 20th century. Prior to Game 3 of the <a href="/wiki/1995_World_Series" title="1995 World Series">1995 World Series</a>, <a href="/wiki/1995_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1995 Cleveland Indians season">Cleveland Indians</a> slugger <a href="/wiki/Albert_Belle" title="Albert Belle">Albert Belle</a><a href="#cite_note-256">[255]</a> unleashed a <a href="/wiki/Profanity" title="Profanity">profanity</a>-laced tirade at NBC reporter Hannah Storm as she was waiting in the Indians' dugout for a prearranged interview with Indians lead-off man, <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Lofton" title="Kenny Lofton">Kenny Lofton</a>. On the same day, Belle snapped at a photographer near the first base line during batting practice. Belle was ultimately fined US$50,000 for his behavior towards Storm. This particular World Series was remembered for baseball television history being made twice by Storm. Prior to Game 2, she became the first female sportscaster to serve as solo host of a World Series game, and after Game 6, she would be the first female sportscaster to preside over the presentation of the Commissioner's Trophy to the World Series champions. However, she was not the first female sportscaster to cover the World Series: that honor fell to <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports" title="CBS Sports">CBS Sports</a> reporter <a href="/wiki/Lesley_Visser" title="Lesley Visser">Lesley Visser</a>, who served as a field reporter for the Series from 1990 to 1993. She would also cover that same World Series but for a different network, ABC Sports. During the <a href="/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="1995–96 United States network television schedule">1995–96 television season</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1995_World_Series" title="1995 World Series">World Series</a>, <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXX" title="Super Bowl XXX">Super Bowl</a>, <a href="/wiki/1996_NBA_Finals" title="1996 NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> and <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics</a> were all telecast by NBC, marking the only time in history that all four marquee events were aired by the same network. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Left-centerfield, <a href="/wiki/Marquis_Grissom" title="Marquis Grissom">Grissom</a> on the run...<a href="/wiki/1995_Atlanta_Braves_season" title="1995 Atlanta Braves season">the team</a> of the '90s has its <a href="/wiki/Commissioner%27s_Trophy_(MLB)" title="Commissioner's Trophy (MLB)">World Championship</a>!!!<a href="#cite_note-257">[256]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Bob Costas calling the final out of Game 6 of the 1995 World Series.</cite></div></blockquote> ABC broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a> would later write in his 2014 autobiography You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television<a href="#cite_note-258">[257]</a> that the competition between the two networks could be so juvenile that neither ABC nor NBC wanted to promote each other's telecasts during the 1995 World Series.<a href="#cite_note-259">[258]</a> To give you a better idea, in the middle of Game 1, Michaels was handed a promo that read "Join us here on <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> for Game 4 in <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Field" title="Progressive Field">Cleveland</a> on Wednesday night and for Game 5 if necessary, Thursday." Michaels however, would soon follow this up by saying "By the way, if you're wondering about Games 2 and 3, I can't tell you exactly where you can see them, but here's a hint: Last night, Bob Costas, Bob Uecker, and Joe Morgan<a href="#cite_note-Pergament-251">[250]</a> [NBC's broadcast crew] were spotted in <a href="/wiki/Underground_Atlanta" title="Underground Atlanta">Underground Atlanta</a>." Naturally, Costas soon made a similar reference to ABC's crew (Michaels, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Palmer" title="Jim Palmer">Jim Palmer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tim_McCarver" title="Tim McCarver">Tim McCarver</a>) on NBC. About five years after The Baseball Network dissolved, Bob Costas wrote in his book Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball that The Baseball Network was stupid and an abomination.<a href="#cite_note-260">[259]</a> Costas believed that the agreement involving the World Series being the only instance of The Baseball Network broadcasting a national telecast was an unprecedented surrender of prestige, as well as a slap to all serious fans. Unlike the <a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">National Hockey League</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> the so-called "Big Two" of North American professional sports leagues, the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> and Major League Baseball had nationally televised all playoff games for decades. While he believed that The Baseball Network fundamentally corrupted the game (except in Costas' point-of-view, the sense that the fans held steadfast, spaniel-like loyalty), Costas himself acknowledged that the most impassioned fans in baseball were now prevented from watching many of the playoff games they wanted to see. Costas added that both the divisional series and the League Championship Series now merited scarcely higher priority than regional coverage provided for a <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten</a> <a href="/wiki/College_football" title="College football">football</a> game between <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">Wisconsin</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">Michigan</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trouble_at_NBC_(1996–2000)">Trouble at NBC (1996–2000)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Trouble at NBC (1996–2000)">edit</a>]</div> Despite the failure of The Baseball Network,<a href="#cite_note-261">[260]</a> NBC decided to retain its relationship with Major League Baseball, but on a far more restricted basis. Under the five-year deal signed on November 7, 1995<a href="#cite_note-262">[261]</a><a href="#cite_note-263">[262]</a> (running from the <a href="/wiki/1996_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1996 Major League Baseball season">1996</a> to <a href="/wiki/2000_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="2000 Major League Baseball season">2000 seasons</a>) for a total of approximately $400 million, NBC did not televise any regular season games. Instead, NBC only handled the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a>,<a href="#cite_note-264">[263]</a><a href="#cite_note-265">[264]</a> three Division Series<a href="#cite_note-266">[265]</a> games<a href="#cite_note-267">[266]</a> (on Tuesday,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-268">[267]</a> Friday, and Saturday nights), and the <a href="/wiki/American_League_Championship_Series" title="American League Championship Series">American League Championship Series</a><a href="#cite_note-269">[268]</a> in even-numbered years and the World Series,<a href="#cite_note-270">[269]</a> three Division Series games (also on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday nights) and the <a href="/wiki/National_League_Championship_Series" title="National League Championship Series">National League Championship Series</a><a href="#cite_note-271">[270]</a> in odd-numbered years. <a href="/wiki/Fox_Major_League_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Major League Baseball">Fox</a>,<a href="#cite_note-272">[271]</a><a href="#cite_note-273">[272]</a> which assumed ABC's portion of the league broadcast television rights, gained the rights to the Saturday Game of the Week during the regular season, in addition to alternating rights to the All-Star Game, League Championship Series (the ALCS in odd-numbered years and the NLCS in even-numbered years), Division Series, and the World Series.<a href="#cite_note-274">[273]</a><a href="#cite_note-BaseballContract-275">[274]</a><a href="#cite_note-276">[275]</a> Also around this particular period, NBC adapted composer <a href="/wiki/Randy_Edelman" title="Randy Edelman">Randy Edelman</a>'s theme from the short-lived <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> series <a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Brisco_County,_Jr." title="The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.">The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.</a> as the main theme music<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-268">[267]</a> for its baseball telecasts. However, NBC used Edelman's "Emotions Run High" from the film <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Green" title="The Big Green">The Big Green</a> as the theme<a href="#cite_note-277">[276]</a> for the network's coverage<a href="#cite_note-278">[277]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1996_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1996 All-Star Game</a>.<a href="#cite_note-279">[278]</a> During the Game 1 of the <a href="/wiki/1996_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1996 American League Championship Series">1996 ALCS</a> between the <a href="/wiki/1996_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1996 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> and <a href="/wiki/1996_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="1996 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore Orioles</a> at <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium_(1923)" title="Yankee Stadium (1923)">Yankee Stadium</a>, NBC was on hand for an incident in which a 12 year old fan named <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Maier" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeffrey Maier">Jeffrey Maier</a><a href="#cite_note-280">[279]</a> deflected a batted ball, hit by Yankees shortstop <a href="/wiki/Derek_Jeter" title="Derek Jeter">Derek Jeter</a> in the bottom of the eighth inning. Maier clearly reached over the fence separating the stands and the field of play nine feet below and snatched the ball with his glove. Right field <a href="/wiki/Umpire_(baseball)" title="Umpire (baseball)">umpire</a> <a href="/wiki/Rich_Garcia" title="Rich Garcia">Rich Garcia</a> immediately ruled the play a <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home run</a>, tying the game at 4–4, despite the protest of Orioles right fielder <a href="/wiki/Tony_Tarasco" title="Tony Tarasco">Tony Tarasco</a> and manager <a href="/wiki/Davey_Johnson" title="Davey Johnson">Davey Johnson</a> (the latter was ejected in the ensuing argument). The Yankees would go on to win the game in eleventh inning on <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Williams" title="Bernie Williams">Bernie Williams</a>' <a href="/wiki/Walk-off_home_run" title="Walk-off home run">walk-off home run</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">In right-field, Tarasco...going back to the track...to the wall...and what happens here!? He contends that a fan reaches up and touches it! But Richie Garcia says no...it's a home run!<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a> on the call on NBC.</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1997–99">1997–99</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 1997–99">edit</a>]</div> Just before the start of NBC's coverage<a href="#cite_note-281">[280]</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1997_World_Series" title="1997 World Series">1997 World Series</a>,<a href="#cite_note-282">[281]</a><a href="#cite_note-283">[282]</a><a href="#cite_note-284">[283]</a><a href="#cite_note-285">[284]</a> <a href="/wiki/Don_Ohlmeyer" title="Don Ohlmeyer">Don Ohlmeyer</a>,<a href="#cite_note-286">[285]</a> president of NBC's West Coast entertainment division and former executive producer for NBC Sports, came under fire after publicly announcing that he hoped that the World Series would end in a four-game sweep.<a href="#cite_note-287">[286]</a><a href="#cite_note-288">[287]</a> Ohlmeyer<a href="#cite_note-289">[288]</a> believed that baseball now lacked broad audience appeal (especially in the aftermath of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike). As opposed to teams from the <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_television_markets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States television markets">three largest television markets</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_American_and_Canadian_cities_by_number_of_major_professional_sports_franchises" class="mw-redirect" title="List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises">New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago</a>) in the United States, the 1997 World Series<a href="#cite_note-290">[289]</a> featured the matchup of the upstart <a href="/wiki/1997_Florida_Marlins_season" title="1997 Florida Marlins season">Florida Marlins</a><a href="#cite_note-291">[290]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1997_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1997 Cleveland Indians season">Cleveland Indians</a>,<a href="#cite_note-292">[291]</a><a href="#cite_note-293">[292]</a> which made their second World Series appearance in three years. In addition, Ohlmeyer feared that the World Series would disrupt<a href="#cite_note-294">[293]</a> NBC's efforts to attract enough viewers for its new fall roster in order to stay on top of the ratings heap. Ohlmeyer said "If the <a href="/wiki/A%26E_(TV_network)" title="A&E (TV network)">A&E</a> channel called, I'd take the call." Game 5 fell on a Thursday,<a href="#cite_note-295">[294]</a> which had long been the <a href="/wiki/Must_See_TV" title="Must See TV">highest rated night on NBC's schedule</a>,<a href="#cite_note-296">[295]</a><a href="#cite_note-297">[296]</a> if not on all of television. Also beginning with the 1997 World Series, NBC would utilize their cable financial channel, <a href="/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC">CNBC</a><a href="#cite_note-298">[297]</a> for their post-game analysis programming. NBC was however, criticized<a href="#cite_note-299">[298]</a> over their apparent resistance to showing <a href="/wiki/Score_bug" title="Score bug">full line scores</a>. Thus, this cheated viewers who wanted to know which innings runs were scored in. <a href="/wiki/Dick_Ebersol" title="Dick Ebersol">Dick Ebersol</a> of <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a> opposed the idea of a score bug, because he thought that fans would dislike seeing more graphics on the screen, and would change the channel from <a href="/wiki/Blowout_(sports)" title="Blowout (sports)">blowout</a> games.<a href="#cite_note-curtis20181213-300">[299]</a> NBC was also criticized for refusing to use <a href="/wiki/Split_screen_(video_production)" title="Split screen (video production)">split screens</a> of batters and pitchers, thus depriving viewers of a drama-enhancing technique. And its full-screen statistic graphics during the 1997 World Series was accused of blocking the action. And unlike Fox, who ran a <a href="/wiki/FoxBox_(sports)" class="mw-redirect" title="FoxBox (sports)">scorebox icon</a> in the corner of the screen throughout the game, updating viewers on the score, and the count and the runners on base, NBC only aired its version between pitches.<a href="#cite_note-301">[300]</a> According to NBC producer David Neal,<a href="#cite_note-302">[301]</a> who was in charge of the 1997 World Series production matters "There is no question we know viewers are looking for information, but they don't want it to obscure their view of the game. We have been consistent at NBC that the scorebox is not for us." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">The 0-1 pitch...a liner...off of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Nagy" title="Charles Nagy">Nagy</a>'s glove, into centerfield!!! The <a href="/wiki/1997_Florida_Marlins_season" title="1997 Florida Marlins season">Florida Marlins</a> have won...the <a href="/wiki/1997_World_Series" title="1997 World Series">World Series</a>!!!<a href="#cite_note-303">[302]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a> calling <a href="/wiki/%C3%89dgar_Renter%C3%ADa" title="Édgar Rentería">Édgar Rentería</a>'s series clinching hit in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series.</cite></div></blockquote> In 1998, Bob Uecker abruptly left NBC Sports before he got a chance to call the <a href="/wiki/1998_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a><a href="#cite_note-304">[303]</a><a href="#cite_note-305">[304]</a> from <a href="/wiki/Coors_Field" title="Coors Field">Coors Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Denver,_Colorado" class="mw-redirect" title="Denver, Colorado">Colorado</a>. Uecker underwent a back operation in which four discs were replaced.<a href="#cite_note-306">[305]</a> For the remainder of the contract (1998–2000), only Bob Costas and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a><a href="#cite_note-307">[306]</a><a href="#cite_note-308">[307]</a> called the games. Come the 1998 postseason<a href="#cite_note-309">[308]</a> and continuing through the end of their contract in 2000, NBC's pre-game coverage was sponsored by <a href="/wiki/JetAmerica" title="JetAmerica">Sun America</a>.<a href="#cite_note-310">[309]</a> Also in 1998, NBC's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1998_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1998 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a> was the highest rated for any League Championship Series since before the <a href="/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_Major_League_Baseball_strike" title="1994–95 Major League Baseball strike">1994 strike</a>. NBC averaged a 9.4 rating for the six games, which was a 6% increase than the network's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/1997_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1997 National League Championship Series">1997 NLCS</a> in the same time slot. The rating was 13% more than Fox's ALCS coverage in <a href="/wiki/1997_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1997 American League Championship Series">1997</a> and 12% more than NBC's coverage in <a href="/wiki/1996_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1996 American League Championship Series">1996</a>. In 1999, Bob Costas teamed with his then-NBC colleague <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a> to call two weekday night telecasts for <a href="/wiki/ESPN_Major_League_Baseball" title="ESPN Major League Baseball">ESPN</a>. The first was on <a href="/wiki/Wednesday_Night_Baseball" title="Wednesday Night Baseball">Wednesday</a>, August 25 with the <a href="/wiki/1999_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1999 Detroit Tigers season">Detroit Tigers</a> playing against the <a href="/wiki/1999_Seattle_Mariners_season" title="1999 Seattle Mariners season">Seattle Mariners</a>.<a href="#cite_note-311">[310]</a> The second was on Tuesday, September 21 with the <a href="/wiki/1999_Atlanta_Braves_season" title="1999 Atlanta Braves season">Atlanta Braves</a> playing against the <a href="/wiki/1999_New_York_Mets_season" title="1999 New York Mets season">New York Mets</a>. Later that October, Costas and Morgan were on hand at New York's <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a> for the 15 inning long fifth game of the NLCS between the Mets and Braves.<a href="#cite_note-312">[311]</a> The game ended with Mets third baseman <a href="/wiki/Robin_Ventura" title="Robin Ventura">Robin Ventura</a> hitting what would become known as a "<a href="/wiki/Grand_Slam_Single" title="Grand Slam Single">Grand Slam Single</a>". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">A drive to right....back to <a href="/wiki/Turner_Field" title="Turner Field">Georgia</a>! Gone, a grand slam!<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Bob Costas calling<a href="#cite_note-313">[312]</a> Robin Ventura's game winning home run<a href="#cite_note-314">[313]</a> in Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS.</cite></div></blockquote> From October 23–27, NBC broadcast their 39th and to date, final <a href="/wiki/1999_World_Series" title="1999 World Series">World Series</a>.<a href="#cite_note-315">[314]</a> As previously mentioned, unlike NBC's prior two World Series (1995 and 1997), where Bob Uecker was in the booth, Bob Costas and Joe Morgan<a href="#cite_note-316">[315]</a> worked as a duo, as they had done since the 1998 All-Star Game. <a href="/wiki/Hannah_Storm" title="Hannah Storm">Hannah Storm</a> again served as pre-game host with <a href="/wiki/Barry_Larkin" title="Barry Larkin">Barry Larkin</a> this time, serving as the analyst. The <a href="/wiki/Field_reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Field reporter">field reporters</a> were <a href="/wiki/Jim_Gray_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Gray (sportscaster)">Jim Gray</a> (<a href="/wiki/1999_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1999 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees'</a> dugout) and <a href="/wiki/Craig_Sager" title="Craig Sager">Craig Sager</a> (in the Atlanta Braves' dugout) on loan from <a href="/wiki/Turner_Sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Turner Sports">Turner Sports</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Jim_Gray/Pete_Rose_interview">The Jim Gray/Pete Rose interview</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: The Jim Gray/Pete Rose interview">edit</a>]</div> In 1999,<a href="#cite_note-317">[316]</a> NBC field reporter <a href="/wiki/Jim_Gray_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Gray (sportscaster)">Jim Gray</a>,<a href="#cite_note-318">[317]</a> who had previously covered Major League Baseball for CBS, came under fire for a confrontational interview with banned all-time hit king <a href="/wiki/Pete_Rose" title="Pete Rose">Pete Rose</a>.<a href="#cite_note-319">[318]</a> Just prior to the start of Game 2 of the <a href="/wiki/1999_World_Series" title="1999 World Series">World Series</a>,<a href="#cite_note-320">[319]</a> Gray pushed Rose – on hand (by permission of <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Bud_Selig" title="Bud Selig">Bud Selig</a>) at <a href="/wiki/Turner_Field" title="Turner Field">Turner Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> as a fan-selected member of <a href="/wiki/MasterCard" class="mw-redirect" title="MasterCard">MasterCard</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Century_Team" title="Major League Baseball All-Century Team">All-Century Team</a> – to admit to having wagered on baseball games as manager of the <a href="/wiki/1989_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1989 Cincinnati Reds season">Cincinnati Reds</a> ten years earlier. After NBC was flooded with tons of viewer complaints, Gray was forced to clarify his actions to the viewers at home prior to Game 3. Regardless of Gray's sincerity, Game 3 hero <a href="/wiki/Chad_Curtis" title="Chad Curtis">Chad Curtis</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1999_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1999 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> boycotted<a href="#cite_note-321">[320]</a> Gray's request for an interview live on camera;<a href="#cite_note-322">[321]</a> Curtis had hit a game-winning home run to send the World Series 3–0 in the Yankees' favor. Curtis said to Gray, "Because of what happened with Pete, we decided not to say anything."<a href="#cite_note-323">[322]</a><a href="#cite_note-324">[323]</a> Despite the heavy criticism<a href="#cite_note-325">[324]</a> he received, Gray offered no apology<a href="#cite_note-326">[325]</a> for his line of questioning toward Rose: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">I stand by it, and I think it was absolutely a proper line of questioning. I don't have an agenda against Pete Rose. Pete was the one who started asking me questions. I definitely wouldn't have gone (that) direction if he had backed off. My intent was to give Pete an opportunity to address issues that have kept him out of baseball. I thought he might have had a change of heart. He hadn't had an opening in 10 years.<a href="#cite_note-327">[326]</a></blockquote> Although <a href="/wiki/Dick_Ebersol" title="Dick Ebersol">Dick Ebersol</a> (then-president of NBC Sports)<a href="#cite_note-328">[327]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Keith_Olbermann" title="Keith Olbermann">Keith Olbermann</a> – among others – have maintained that Gray was simply doing his job,<a href="#cite_note-329">[328]</a> in 2004 Pete Rose would admit to betting on baseball (along with other sports) while he was the manager of the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>.<a href="#cite_note-330">[329]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000">2000</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 2000">edit</a>]</div> In 2000, NBC was caught in the dilemma of having to televise a first-round playoff game between the <a href="/wiki/2000_New_York_Yankees_season" title="2000 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> and <a href="/wiki/2000_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="2000 Oakland Athletics season">Oakland Athletics</a> over the first <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_debates" title="2000 United States presidential debates">presidential debate</a> between <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a>. NBC decided to give its local stations the option of carrying the debate or the baseball game.<a href="#cite_note-331">[330]</a> If an NBC affiliate decided to carry the debate, then the <a href="/wiki/Ion_Television" title="Ion Television">Pax TV</a> affiliate<a href="#cite_note-332">[331]</a> in their local market could carry the game. NBC also placed a crawl at the bottom of the screen to inform viewers that they could see the debate on its sister channel <a href="/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a>. On the other end, Fox said that it would carry baseball on the two nights when its schedule conflicted with the presidential or vice presidential debates. NBC spokeswoman Barbara Levin said "We have a contract with Major League Baseball. The commission was informed well in advance of their selecting the debate dates. If we didn't have the baseball conflict we would be televising it." Although there has not been confirmation, anecdotal reports indicated that many NBC affiliates in <a href="/wiki/Swing_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing states">swing states</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>) chose to air the debate over the baseball game. This is an option that CBS affiliates did not have in 1992, when CBS refused to break away from Game 4 of the <a href="/wiki/1992_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1992 American League Championship Series">American League Championship Series</a> (which had gone into extra innings) to the first <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Clinton</a>–<a href="/wiki/George_Herbert_Walker_Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="George Herbert Walker Bush">Bush</a>–<a href="/wiki/Ross_Perot" title="Ross Perot">Perot</a> debate. Like NBC and Fox would do in 2000, CBS cited its contract with Major League Baseball. During NBC's coverage of the <a href="/wiki/2000_American_League_Division_Series" title="2000 American League Division Series">2000 Division Series</a> between the <a href="/wiki/2000_New_York_Yankees_season" title="2000 New York Yankees season">New York Yankees</a> and <a href="/wiki/2000_Oakland_Athletics_season" title="2000 Oakland Athletics season">Oakland Athletics</a>, regular play-by-play announcer Bob Costas decided to take a breather after anchoring NBC's prime time coverage of the <a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">Summer Olympic Games</a> from <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>. In Costas' place was <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Atlanta Braves</a> announcer <a href="/wiki/Skip_Caray" title="Skip Caray">Skip Caray</a>,<a href="#cite_note-333">[332]</a><a href="#cite_note-334">[333]</a><a href="#cite_note-335">[334]</a> who teamed with Joe Morgan before Costas' return for the <a href="/wiki/2000_American_League_Championship_Series" title="2000 American League Championship Series">ALCS</a>. It wasn't just Costas but all of NBC's production crews who were down in Sydney. The Olympics ended just two or three days before the MLB playoffs started that year, so the <a href="/wiki/Braves_TBS_Baseball" title="Braves TBS Baseball">TBS</a> crew worked the Division Series games for NBC. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Baseball_leaves_NBC_again">Baseball leaves NBC again</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Baseball leaves NBC again">edit</a>]</div> In September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox<a href="#cite_note-336">[335]</a> to televise Saturday afternoon regular-season baseball games, the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> and coverage of the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox, which was paying the league $417 million per year, came from the postseason, which not only attracted large audiences, but also provided an irreplaceable opportunity for Fox to showcase its fall schedule. Under the previous five-year deal with NBC (running from 1996 to 2000), Fox paid $115 million ($575 million overall), compared to the $80 million ($400 million overall) that NBC paid. The difference between the Fox and the NBC contracts was that Fox's Saturday Game of the Week was implicitly valued at less than $90 million for five years. Before NBC officially decided to part ways with Major League Baseball (for the second time in about 12 years) on September 26, 2000,<a href="#cite_note-337">[336]</a> Fox's payment would have been $345 million, while NBC would have paid $240 million. NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer said regarding the loss of Major League Baseball rights for the second time since 1990:<a href="#cite_note-338">[337]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">We have notified Major League Baseball that we have passed on their offer and we wish them well going forward.<a href="#cite_note-339">[338]</a></blockquote> NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol<a href="#cite_note-340">[339]</a> added that it was not <a href="/wiki/Cost-effectiveness" class="mw-redirect" title="Cost-effectiveness">cost-effective</a> for NBC to be paying out the kind of money that Major League Baseball wanted. NBC was also reportedly concerned over disruptions to its regular fall prime time lineup that would result from having to broadcast the playoffs and World Series. In addition, NBC had several <a href="/wiki/NASCAR_on_NBC" title="NASCAR on NBC">NASCAR</a> races scheduled during the summer. Ebersol further added: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">We walked away from the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">N.F.L.</a>,<a href="#cite_note-341">[340]</a> because it was the right thing to do, and we stayed No. 1 in prime-time in all the important aspects. We walked away from baseball because it was the right thing to do and we don't have to take off our fall shows to show playoff games. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_NBC" title="NBA on NBC">N.B.A.</a> was asking us to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.<a href="#cite_note-342">[341]</a></blockquote> The last Major League Baseball game that NBC would televise prior to the <a href="/wiki/2022_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="2022 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a>-<a href="/wiki/2022_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="2022 Chicago White Sox season">Chicago White Sox</a> contest on May 8, 2022, was Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/2000_American_League_Championship_Series" title="2000 American League Championship Series">2000 American League Championship Series</a>, occurring on October 17, 2000.<a href="#cite_note-NBC-343">[342]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, due to the coverage of the <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election" title="2000 United States presidential election">2000 Presidential Debate</a>, <a href="/wiki/KPRC-TV" title="KPRC-TV">KPRC-TV</a> elected to carry <a href="/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News">NBC News</a>' coverage of the debate while <a href="/wiki/Independent_station_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent station (North America)">independent station</a> <a href="/wiki/KYAZ" title="KYAZ">KNWS-TV</a> carried the ALCS game via NBC. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Joe, time to say goodnight. It has been my good fortune to work with people like <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a>, and "Mr. Baseball" <a href="/wiki/Bob_Uecker" title="Bob Uecker">Bob Uecker</a>, and of course you. I've enjoyed it immensely. Best of luck to <a href="/wiki/Joe_Buck" title="Joe Buck">Joe Buck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tim_McCarver" title="Tim McCarver">Tim McCarver</a> and all the folks at <a href="/wiki/Fox_Major_League_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Major League Baseball">Fox</a> for the upcoming <a href="/wiki/2000_World_Series" title="2000 World Series">World Series</a> and beyond. And now as we say goodnight from the <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">Bronx</a>, we like to show you the names of the men and women who brought you tonight's game, this year's postseason, and the past few seasons of baseball on <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>. Once again the final score from the Bronx as the <a href="/wiki/2000_New_York_Yankees_season" title="2000 New York Yankees season">Yankees</a> win the pennant...the Yanks, 9 and the <a href="/wiki/2000_Seattle_Mariners_season" title="2000 Seattle Mariners season">Mariners</a>, 7. Coming up next on most of these <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBC_television_affiliates_(by_U.S._state)" title="List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)">stations</a> following your late local news, <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno" title="The Tonight Show with Jay Leno">The Tonight Show with Jay Leno</a>. Tonight, <a href="/wiki/Jay_Leno" title="Jay Leno">Jay</a> welcomes actor <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Sheen" title="Charlie Sheen">Charlie Sheen</a> and the music of <a href="/wiki/PJ_Harvey" title="PJ Harvey">PJ Harvey</a>. For <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Gray_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Gray (sportscaster)">Jim Gray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Roberts" title="Jimmy Roberts">Jimmy Roberts</a>, I'm <a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a> saying so long...from <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium_(1923)" title="Yankee Stadium (1923)">Yankee Stadium</a>. This has been a presentation...of <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a>!<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a> at the end of Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/2000_American_League_Championship_Series" title="2000 American League Championship Series">2000 American League Championship Series</a>, NBC's final Major League Baseball telecast for the next 22 years.</cite></div></blockquote> During the closing credits of that final game, NBC utilized the ending title theme<a href="#cite_note-344">[343]</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> from the 1987 film <a href="/wiki/The_Untouchables_(film)" title="The Untouchables (film)">The Untouchables</a>. The loss of Major League Baseball was part of a slow decline for NBC's sports division.<a href="#cite_note-345">[344]</a> This began with its loss of the <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">rights</a> to the NFL's <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a> to <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">CBS</a> at the end of the <a href="/wiki/1997_NFL_season" title="1997 NFL season">1997 season</a>. In <a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season" title="2001–02 NBA season">2002</a>, NBC lost its <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_NBC" title="NBA on NBC">NBA rights</a> to <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ABC" title="NBA on ABC">ABC</a>. This all culminated in the unproductive <a href="/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="2004–05 United States network television schedule">2004–05 prime time season</a> (despite heavy promotion of its lineup during the <a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Summer Olympics</a>), when NBC carried no major championship sports events during prime time. NBC did, however, acquire the television rights to the <a href="/wiki/NHL_on_NBC" title="NHL on NBC">National Hockey League</a> in 2004,<a href="#cite_note-346">[345]</a> however the NHL ended up in a <a href="/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NHL_lockout" title="2004–05 NHL lockout">lockout</a> that delayed the start of the contract by two years. In response to NBC's impending loss of NBA coverage to <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ABC" title="NBA on ABC">ABC</a>/<a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ESPN" title="NBA on ESPN">ESPN</a> in <a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season" title="2001–02 NBA season">2002</a>, NBC Entertainment president <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Zucker" title="Jeff Zucker">Jeff Zucker</a> said: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">We lost <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">football</a><a href="#cite_note-347">[346]</a> two years ago, and we stayed a strong No. 1. We lost <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">baseball</a>, and we stayed a strong No. 1. Now we're about to lose basketball, and I believe we'll stay a strong No. 1. The fact is, it's had no impact on our prime time strength. . . NBC can now program all of Sunday nights without going around basketball. I think that's a huge advantage for us. We haven't been able for the last several years to put a program at 8 o'clock (such as <a href="/wiki/American_Dreams" title="American Dreams">American Dreams</a>) because we've had the NBA.</blockquote> Within <a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="2005–06 United States network television schedule">two years</a> of NBC losing the NBA rights, NBC dropped to fourth place in the prime time television rankings for the first time in its history, which was also partly the result of a weaker prime time schedule, and would more or less remain there for <a href="/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="2013–14 United States network television schedule">almost nine years</a>. In 2001, Bob Costas claimed that despite still loving the game, he now felt a certain alienation from the institution. By the time that NBC lost Major League Baseball for the second time in twelve years, the sport endured a <a href="/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_Major_League_Baseball_strike" title="1994–95 Major League Baseball strike">strike</a>, realignment, the introduction of the <a href="/wiki/Wild_card_(sports)#Major_League_Baseball" title="Wild card (sports)">wild card</a> round, and NBC's complete loss of the regular season Game of the Week. Costas would add that since NBC only did a few games each year and he lacked the forum that he would eventually have (on <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a>'s <a href="/wiki/On_the_Record_with_Bob_Costas" title="On the Record with Bob Costas">On the Record with Bob Costas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inside_the_NFL" title="Inside the NFL">Inside the NFL</a> and <a href="/wiki/Costas_Now" title="Costas Now">Costas Now</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Costas_on_the_Radio" title="Costas on the Radio">Costas on the Radio</a>) to express his views, he to some extent, started editorializing in games. When asked about whether or not the fact that NBC no longer had the baseball rights was disappointing, Bob Costas said "I'm a little disappointed to lose baseball, but that's the way the business is. And it's not nearly as disappointing as it was when we lost it at the end of the <a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">'80s</a>. Because then it was like baseball was the birthright for NBC. ... (Baseball is) not going to affect any decision that I have in the future. It's nowhere near as devastating as a decade ago. Different circumstances, different time. I miss it a little bit but not a lot. I am very philosophical about this stuff. I have had wonderful opportunities in my career and no one wants to hear me complain about anything." In <a href="/wiki/2009_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="2009 Major League Baseball season">2009</a>, Costas would become a contributor and occasional play-by-play announcer for <a href="/wiki/MLB_Network" title="MLB Network">MLB Network</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_on_Peacock_(2022-23)">Return on Peacock (2022-23)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Return on Peacock (2022-23)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Peacock_(streaming_service)#Sports_programming" title="Peacock (streaming service)">Peacock_(streaming_service) § Sports_programming</a>, and <a href="/wiki/MLB_Sunday_Leadoff" title="MLB Sunday Leadoff">MLB Sunday Leadoff</a></div> On June 14, 2021, NBC Sports announced<a href="#cite_note-348">[347]</a> they would air a three-game series between the <a href="/wiki/2021_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="2021 Philadelphia Phillies season">Philadelphia Phillies</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2021_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="2021 San Francisco Giants season">San Francisco Giants</a> nationally on <a href="/wiki/Peacock_(streaming_service)" title="Peacock (streaming service)">Peacock</a>.<a href="#cite_note-349">[348]</a> The telecasts would represent the first time since 2000 that NBC Sports would produce a nationally televised Major League Baseball game. <a href="/wiki/Jon_Miller" title="Jon Miller">Jon Miller</a> provided the play-by-play<a href="#cite_note-350">[349]</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Giants_broadcasters" title="List of San Francisco Giants broadcasters">Giants</a> analyst <a href="/wiki/Mike_Krukow" title="Mike Krukow">Mike Krukow</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_broadcasters" title="List of Philadelphia Phillies broadcasters">Phillies</a> analysts <a href="/wiki/John_Kruk" title="John Kruk">John Kruk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Rollins" title="Jimmy Rollins">Jimmy Rollins</a>. On April 6, 2022, Major League Baseball and NBC Sports announced a multi-year deal for Peacock<a href="#cite_note-Feinsand-351">[350]</a><a href="#cite_note-NBC_Sports_Group_Press_Box-352">[351]</a> from each participating team.<a href="#cite_note-New_York_Post-353">[352]</a> to air an exclusive package of 18 Sunday morning game broadcasts,<a href="#cite_note-:1-354">[353]</a> beginning with a May 8, 2022, broadcast of a <a href="/wiki/2022_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="2022 Chicago White Sox season">Chicago White Sox</a>/<a href="/wiki/2022_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="2022 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a> game<a href="#cite_note-355">[354]</a> at <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway Park</a>. The games, all of which were hosted by teams in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time Zone</a> had, in 2022, scheduled start times of 11:30 a.m. <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">ET</a> for the first six broadcasts (May 8 through June 12), then 12 noon ET from June 19 through September 4. The games were available only on Peacock<a href="#cite_note-:0-356">[355]</a> (except for the May 8 broadcast,<a href="#cite_note-Costa-357">[356]</a> which <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a><a href="#cite_note-358">[357]</a> would <a href="/wiki/Simulcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Simulcasting">simulcast</a><a href="#cite_note-359">[358]</a>), and also included pre- and post-game coverage; exclusive carriage of the <a href="/wiki/All-Star_Futures_Game" title="All-Star Futures Game">All-Star Futures Game</a><a href="#cite_note-360">[359]</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game weekend</a> event featuring minor-league prospects); and access to MLB's vault of highlights, classic games, and documentaries.<a href="#cite_note-361">[360]</a> The deal with Peacock was the second that MLB reached with a streaming service in 2022, following an agreement announced on March 8 with <a href="/wiki/Apple_TV%2B" title="Apple TV+">Apple TV+</a> to air weekly <a href="/wiki/Friday_Night_Baseball" title="Friday Night Baseball">Friday night</a> doubleheaders.<a href="#cite_note-362">[361]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-356">[355]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-354">[353]</a> On April 26, 2022, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Marchand" title="Andrew Marchand">Andrew Marchand</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a> reported that <a href="/wiki/Jason_Benetti" title="Jason Benetti">Jason Benetti</a><a href="#cite_note-363">[362]</a> (who <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chicago_White_Sox_broadcasters" title="List of Chicago White Sox broadcasters">calls</a> the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> games for <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_Chicago" title="NBC Sports Chicago">NBC Sports Chicago</a>, and also worked <a href="/wiki/NBC_Olympic_broadcasts" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC Olympic broadcasts">NBC's telecasts</a> of <a href="/wiki/Baseball_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics" title="Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics">baseball</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Summer Olympics</a>)<a href="#cite_note-364">[363]</a> would serve as the lead by-play announcer for the games, joined by rotating analysts<a href="#cite_note-Feinsand-351">[350]</a><a href="#cite_note-NBC_Sports_Group_Press_Box-352">[351]</a> from each participating team.<a href="#cite_note-New_York_Post-353">[352]</a> Separately, on the same day, NBC announced <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Fareed" title="Ahmed Fareed">Ahmed Fareed</a><a href="#cite_note-365">[364]</a> as the studio host.<a href="#cite_note-366">[365]</a> When NBC aired<a href="#cite_note-367">[366]</a> the Chicago White Sox-Boston Red Sox game on May 8, 2022, it officially marked 7,873 days since NBC<a href="#cite_note-368">[367]</a> last televised a Major League Baseball game.<a href="#cite_note-Costa-357">[356]</a> Jason Benetti broadcast the game alongside<a href="#cite_note-369">[368]</a> <a href="/wiki/Steve_Stone_(baseball)" title="Steve Stone (baseball)">Steve Stone</a>, representing the Chicago White Sox and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Youkilis" title="Kevin Youkilis">Kevin Youkilis</a>, who represented the Boston Red Sox. For the <a href="/wiki/2023_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="2023 Major League Baseball season">2023 season</a>,<a href="#cite_note-370">[369]</a> NBC simulcast<a href="#cite_note-371">[370]</a> the May 7 game between the <a href="/wiki/2023_Baltimore_Orioles_season" title="2023 Baltimore Orioles season">Baltimore Orioles</a> and <a href="/wiki/2023_Atlanta_Braves_season" title="2023 Atlanta Braves season">Atlanta Braves</a><a href="#cite_note-372">[371]</a> in <a href="/wiki/Truist_Park" title="Truist Park">Atlanta</a>.<a href="#cite_note-373">[372]</a> This time, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Vasgersian" title="Matt Vasgersian">Matt Vasgersian</a> provided the play-by-play duties alongside <a href="/wiki/Andruw_Jones" title="Andruw Jones">Andruw Jones</a>, representing the Atlanta Braves and <a href="/wiki/Ben_McDonald" title="Ben McDonald">Ben McDonald</a>, who represented the Baltimore Orioles. Peacock's deal with Major League Baseball ultimately expired following the 2023 season.<a href="#cite_note-374">[373]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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1960s">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1966_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1966 Major League Baseball season">1966</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li>Apr 16, 1966 (Yankees-Orioles) <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Reese" title="Pee Wee Reese">Pee Wee Reese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a></li> <li>Apr 23, 1966 (Twins-Angels) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese,</li> <li>Apr 23, 1966 (Orioles-Yankees) <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a>, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Apr 30, 1966 (Cardinals-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>May 7, 1966 (Dodgers-Reds) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>May 14, 1966 (Dodgers-Pirates) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>May 14, 1966 (Giants-Mets) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 21, 1966 (Indians-White Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>May 21, 1966 (Twins-Yankees) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 28, 1966 (Pirates-Astros) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>May 28, 1966 (Braves-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 30, 1966 (Dodgers-Braves) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>May 30, 1966 (Giants-Reds) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 4, 1966 (Dodgers-Mets) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jun 4, 1966 (Cubs-Reds) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 11, 1966 (Yankees-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jun 11, 1966 (Braves-Pirates) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 18, 1966 (White Sox-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jun 18, 1966 (Tigers-Yankees) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 25, 1966 (Dodgers-Braves) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jun 25, 1966 (White Sox-Yankees) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 2, 1966 (Braves-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jul 4, 1966 (Twins-Indians) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jul 4, 1966 (Braves-Astros) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 12, 1966 MLB All Star Game Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jul 16, 1966 (Orioles-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jul 23, 1966 (Tigers-Indians) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jul 30, 1966 (Giants-Braves) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Jul 30, 1966 (Astros-Reds) <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Jones_(sportscaster)" title="Charlie Jones (sportscaster)">Charlie Jones</a>, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 6, 1966 (Reds-Pirates) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Aug 6, 1966 (Giants-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 13, 1966 (Astros-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Aug 13, 1966 (Cubs-Dodgers) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 20, 1966 (Cardinals-Dodgers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Aug 20, 1966 (Braves-Giants) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 27, 1966 (Dodgers-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Aug 27, 1966 (Pirates-Cardinals) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 3, 1966 (Giants-Cardinals) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Sep 3, 1966 (Pirates-Cubs) Charlie Jones, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 5, 1966 (Giants-Dodgers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Sep 5, 1966 (Braves-Pirates) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 10, 1966 (Cardinals-Pirates) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Sep 10, 1966 (Orioles-Twins) <a href="/wiki/Mel_Allen" title="Mel Allen">Mel Allen</a>, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 17, 1966 (Pirates-Dodgers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese</li> <li>Sep 17, 1966 (Mets-Giants) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 24, 1966 (Dodgers-Cubs) Announcers unknown</li> <li>Sep 24, 1966 (Pirates-Braves) Announcers unknown</li> <li>Sep 24, 1966 (Giants-Astros) Announcers unknown</li> <li>Oct 1, 1966 (Pirates-Cardinals) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese; other games unknown</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1967 Major League Baseball season">1967</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li>Apr 15, 1967 (Dodgers-Cardinals) <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Reese" title="Pee Wee Reese">Pee Wee Reese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a></li> <li>Apr 15, 1967 (Giants-Braves) <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a></li> <li>Apr 22, 1967 (Athletics-Orioles) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Apr 22, 1967 (Angels-Indians) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Apr 29, 1967 (Tigers-Orioles) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 6, 1967 (Giants-Pirates) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 6, 1967 (Cardinals-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 13, 1967 (Braves-Pirates) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 20, 1967 (Yankees-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 20, 1967 (Dodgers-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 27, 1967 (Dodgers-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 27, 1967 (Senators-Tigers) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 3, 1967 (Braves-Cubs) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 10, 1967 (White Sox-Yankees) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 10, 1967 (Orioles-Twins) <a href="/wiki/Mel_Allen" title="Mel Allen">Mel Allen</a>, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 17, 1967 (Cardinals-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 24, 1967 (White Sox-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 24, 1967 (Mets-Braves) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 1, 1967 (Reds-Cubs) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 1, 1967 (Tigers-Indians) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 8, 1967 (Red Sox-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 8, 1967 (Twins-White Sox) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 11, 1967 MLB All Star Game Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 15, 1967 (Cubs-Dodgers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 15, 1967 (Astros-Giants) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 22, 1967 (Braves-Cardinals) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 29, 1967 (Tigers-White Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 29, 1967 (Angels-Senators) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 5, 1967 (Red Sox-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 12, 1967 (White Sox-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 19, 1967 (Angels-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 19, 1967 (Orioles-White Sox) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 26, 1967 (Red Sox-White Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 26, 1967 (Twins-Indians) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 4, 1967, (Indians-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 9, 1967 (Tigers-White Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 9, 1967 (Twins-Orioles) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 16, 1967 (Orioles-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 16, 1967 (Senators-Tigers) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 23, 1967 (White Sox-Indians) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 30, 1967 (Tiwins-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 30, 1967 (Senators-White Sox) Announcers unknown</li> <li>Sep 30, 1967 (Angels-Tigers) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Oct 1, 1967 (Twins-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Oct 1, 1967 (Angels-Tigers) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1968 Major League Baseball season">1968</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li>Apr 13, 1968 (Cardinals-Reds) <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Reese" title="Pee Wee Reese">Pee Wee Reese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a></li> <li>Apr 20, 1968 (Indians-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Apr 20, 1968 (Tigers-White Sox) <a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a></li> <li>Apr 27, 1968 (White Sox-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 4, 1968 (Cardinals-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 11, 1968 (White Sox-Athletics) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 11, 1968 (Phillies-Pirates) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 18, 1968 (Reds-Pirates) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 18, 1968 (Braves-Mets) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>May 25, 1968 (Red Sox-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>May 25, 1968 (Giants-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 1, 1968 (Cardinals-Mets) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 1, 1968 (Red Sox-Orioles) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 3, 1968 (Tigers-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 15, 1968 (Tigers-White Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 15, 1968 (Red Sox-Indians) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jun 22, 1968 (Braves-Cardinals) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jun 29, 1968 (Indians-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 6, 1968 (Cardinals-Giants) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 6, 1968 (Twins-Red Sox) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 9, 1968 MLB All Star Game Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 13, 1968 (Dodgers-Braves) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 13, 1968 (Phillies-Pirates) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Jul 20, 1968 (Orioles-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Jul 27, 1968 (Yankees-Indians) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 3, 1968 (Tigers-Twins) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 3, 1968 (Athletics-Indians) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 10, 1968 (Red Sox-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 17, 1968 (Tigers-Red Sox) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 17, 1968 (Orioles-Twins) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Aug 24, 1968 (Tigers-Yankees) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 31, 1968 (Orioles-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Aug 31, 1968 (Astros-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 7, 1968 (Giants-Cardinals) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 7, 1968 (Phillies-Cubs) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 14, 1968 (Athletics-Tigers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 14, 1968 (Cardinals-Astros) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li> <li>Sep 21, 1968 (Cardinals-Dodgers) Curt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax</li> <li>Sep 21, 1968 (Braves-Giants) Jim Simpson, Tony Kubek</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link 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Los Angeles Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=%27Dutch%27+Back+in+Booth+for+a+Trip+Down+Nostalgia+Lane&rft.date=1989-07-12&rft.au=Eric+Lichtblau&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Farchives%2Fla-xpm-1989-07-12-me-3504-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJeff_Rusnak1989" class="citation news cs1">Jeff Rusnak (July 12, 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150402112020/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-07-12/sports/8902200563_1_reagan-wasn-t-star-nbc">"Nbc Survives Reagan's 1st-inning Errors"</a>. Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel. Tribune Publishing. 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Los Angeles Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=ALL-STAR+GAME+%3A+Television+%2F+Larry+Stewart+%3A+Reagan+Can%27t+Handle+Easy+Pitch+for+NBC&rft.date=1989-07-12&rft.au=Larry+Stewart&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Farchives%2Fla-xpm-1989-07-12-sp-3579-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJerry_Greene1989" class="citation news cs1">Jerry Greene (July 12, 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/07/12/bo-hits-legendary-status-with-all-star-home-run/">"Bo Hits Legendary Status With All-star Home Run"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Sentinel" title="Orlando Sentinel">Orlando Sentinel</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Orlando+Sentinel&rft.atitle=Bo+Hits+Legendary+Status+With+All-star+Home+Run&rft.date=1989-07-12&rft.au=Jerry+Greene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orlandosentinel.com%2F1989%2F07%2F12%2Fbo-hits-legendary-status-with-all-star-home-run%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-bo3-130"><a href="#cite_ref-bo3_130-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070311111642/http://www.adweek.com/aw/creative/best_spots_90s/90s_112.jsp">"Best Spots of the 90's"</a>. <a href="/wiki/AdWeek" class="mw-redirect" title="AdWeek">AdWeek</a>. 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The New York Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=SPORTS+OF+THE+TIMES%3B+Baseball%27s+Final+Days%3A+The+Best&rft.date=1989-09-29&rft.aulast=Vecsey&rft.aufirst=George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1989%2F09%2F29%2Fsports%2Fsports-of-the-times-baseball-s-final-days-the-best.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1989/09/28/around-the-majors/cb9b13a2-3b37-480b-be74-47280a5ab39c/">"AROUND THE MAJORS"</a>. The Washington Post.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.atitle=AROUND+THE+MAJORS&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fsports%2F1989%2F09%2F28%2Faround-the-majors%2Fcb9b13a2-3b37-480b-be74-47280a5ab39c%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFrager1989" class="citation news cs1">Frager, Ray (October 1, 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-01-sp-946-story.html">"The Last At-Bat for 'Game of the Week'"</a>. The Baltimore Sun.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Baltimore+Sun&rft.atitle=The+Last+At-Bat+for+%27Game+of+the+Week%27&rft.date=1989-10-01&rft.aulast=Frager&rft.aufirst=Ray&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Farchives%2Fla-xpm-1989-10-01-sp-946-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFrager1989" class="citation news cs1">Frager, Ray (September 22, 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-22-sp-897-story.html">"THE SIDELINES : NBC-TV to Air Divisional Deciders"</a>. Los Angeles Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=THE+SIDELINES+%3A+NBC-TV+to+Air+Divisional+Deciders&rft.date=1989-09-22&rft.aulast=Frager&rft.aufirst=Ray&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Farchives%2Fla-xpm-1989-09-22-sp-897-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-135"><a href="#cite_ref-135">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHam2011" class="citation book cs1">Ham, Eldon L. (July 29, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rXYZZm6FbZsC&q=nbc+game+of+the+week+blue+jays+1989&pg=PA176">Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television</a>. 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The Buffalo News.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Buffalo+News&rft.atitle=NBC+SPORTS+APOLOGIZES+FOR+SLIGHTING+THE+ORIOLES&rft.date=1989-09-29&rft.aulast=Pergament&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbuffalonews.com%2F1989%2F09%2F30%2Fnbc-sports-apologizes-for-slighting-the-orioles%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-30-ca-159-story.html">"An era in television sports ends today"</a>. 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The New York Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=CBS+HAS+WON+THE+WORLD+SERIES......NOW+IT+COULD+LOSE+ITS+SHIRT&rft.date=1989-07-23&rft.aulast=Shames&rft.aufirst=Laurence&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1989%2F07%2F23%2Fmagazine%2Fcbs-has-won-the-world-seriesnow-it-could-lose-its-shirt.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFErardi,_Luckhaupt2010" class="citation book cs1">Erardi, Luckhaupt, John, Joel (September 29, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vEEAWnCRL6UC&q=1990+baseball+cbs&pg=PA40">The Wire-to-Wire Reds: Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World ...</a> Clerisy Press. p. 40. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781578604661" title="Special:BookSources/9781578604661"><bdi>9781578604661</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Wire-to-Wire+Reds%3A+Sweet+Lou%2C+Nasty+Boys%2C+and+the+Wild+Run+to+a+World+...&rft.pages=40&rft.pub=Clerisy+Press&rft.date=2010-09-29&rft.isbn=9781578604661&rft.aulast=Erardi%2C+Luckhaupt&rft.aufirst=John%2C+Joel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvEEAWnCRL6UC%26q%3D1990%2Bbaseball%2Bcbs%26pg%3DPA40&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+Major+League+Baseball+on+NBC" class="Z3988"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>) </li> <li id="cite_note-183"><a href="#cite_ref-183">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFErnest_Cashmore1994" class="citation book cs1">Ernest Cashmore (1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=V4qcZDB8xvMC&q=Major+League+Baseball+on+CBS&pg=PA146">And There Was Television</a>. 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League Baseball: An Inside Look">Major League Baseball: An Inside Look</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Sunday_Leadoff" title="MLB Sunday Leadoff">MLB Sunday Leadoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Match_of_the_Day_(American_TV_series)" title="Match of the Day (American TV series)">Match of the Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLS_on_NBC" title="MLS on NBC">MLS on NBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_NBC" title="NBA on NBC">NBA on NBC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_NBC" title="WNBA on NBC">WNBA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Showtime" title="NBA Showtime">NBA Showtime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBC_College_Football_Game_of_the_Week" title="NBC College Football Game of the Week">NBC College Football Game of the Week</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBC_college_bowl_game_broadcasts" title="NBC college bowl game broadcasts">Bowl games</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHL_on_NBC" title="NHL on NBC">NHL on NBC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NHL_Game_of_the_Week" title="NHL Game of 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League Baseball on television in the 1960s">1960s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1970s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1970s">1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1980s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1990s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_2010s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 2010s">2010s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_2020s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 2020s">2020s</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Over-the-air broadcasters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MLB_on_Fox" title="MLB on Fox">Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_ABC" title="Major League Baseball on ABC">ABC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_ABC" title="History of Major League Baseball on ABC">history</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Former6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_CBS" title="Major League Baseball on CBS">CBS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_DuMont" title="Major League Baseball on DuMont">DuMont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">NBC</a> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">history</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pay television broadcasters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ESPN_Major_League_Baseball" title="ESPN Major League Baseball">ESPN/ESPN+</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_on_FS1" title="MLB on FS1">FS1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fox_Deportes" title="Fox Deportes">Fox Deportes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_on_TBS" title="MLB on TBS">TBS/Max</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Former6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USA_Network_Thursday_Night_Baseball" title="USA Network Thursday Night Baseball">USA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_Fox_Family" title="Major League Baseball on Fox Family">Fox Family/ABC Family</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Streaming media carriers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friday_Night_Baseball" title="Friday Night Baseball">Apple TV+</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Sunday_Leadoff" title="MLB Sunday Leadoff">The Roku Channel</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Former6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Sunday_Leadoff" title="MLB Sunday Leadoff">Peacock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Game_of_the_Week_Live_on_YouTube" title="MLB Game of the Week Live on YouTube">YouTube</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">MLB owned and operated entities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network" title="The Baseball Network">The Baseball Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Extra_Innings" title="MLB Extra Innings">Extra Innings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Network" title="MLB Network">MLB Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB.com#MLB.tv" title="MLB.com">MLB.tv</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Broadcast days</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Game of the Week</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball Game of the Week broadcasters">broadcasters</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Baseball" title="Monday Night Baseball">Monday Night</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_prime_time_television_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball prime time television broadcasters">broadcasters</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Tuesday" title="MLB Tuesday">Tuesday Night</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wednesday_Night_Baseball" title="Wednesday Night Baseball">Wednesday Night</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thursday_Night_Baseball" title="Thursday Night Baseball">Thursday Night</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friday_Night_Baseball" title="Friday Night Baseball">Friday Night</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_Saturday_Baseball" title="Fox Saturday Baseball">Saturday Afternoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baseball_Night_in_America" title="Baseball Night in America">Saturday Night</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Afternoon_Baseball" title="Sunday Afternoon Baseball">Sunday Afternoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Night_Baseball" title="Sunday Night Baseball">Sunday Night</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Local broadcasters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_Major_League_Baseball_broadcasters" title="List of current Major League Baseball broadcasters">Current announcers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_Major_League_Baseball_television_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical Major League Baseball television broadcasters">Historical television broadcasters</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_regional_sports_networks" title="Major League Baseball on regional sports networks">Regional sports networks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AT%26T_SportsNet" title="AT&T SportsNet">AT&T SportsNet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sports_Network" title="Chicago Sports Network">Chicago Sports Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FanDuel_Sports_Network" title="FanDuel Sports Network">FanDuel Sports Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_Fox_Sports_Networks" title="Major League Baseball on Fox Sports Networks">Fox Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marquee_Sports_Network" title="Marquee Sports Network">Marquee Sports Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MASN" title="MASN">MASN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_Regional_Networks" title="NBC Sports Regional Networks">NBC Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NESN" title="NESN">NESN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rangers_Sports_Network" title="Rangers Sports Network">Rangers Sports Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Root_Sports_Northwest" title="Root Sports Northwest">Root Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SNY" title="SNY">SNY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_City_Home_Network" title="Space City Home Network">Space City Home Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectrum_SportsNet_LA" title="Spectrum SportsNet LA">Spectrum SportsNet LA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sportsnet" title="Sportsnet">Sportsnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SportsNet_Pittsburgh" title="SportsNet Pittsburgh">SportsNet Pittsburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_SportsChannel" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball on SportsChannel">SportsChannel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YES_Network" title="YES Network">YES Network</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_superstations" title="Major League Baseball on superstations">Superstations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braves_TBS_Baseball" title="Braves TBS Baseball">TBS</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Atlanta_Braves_broadcasters" title="List of Atlanta Braves broadcasters">Atlanta Braves</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WGN_Sports" title="WGN Sports">WGN Sports</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Cubs_broadcasters" title="List of Chicago Cubs broadcasters">Chicago Cubs</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chicago_White_Sox_broadcasters" title="List of Chicago White Sox broadcasters">White Sox</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pay-per-view" title="Pay-per-view">Pay-per-view</a> services</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GiantsVision" title="GiantsVision">GiantsVision</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Owned-and-operated_station" title="Owned-and-operated station">Owned-and-operated stations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_Fox_Television_Stations" title="Major League Baseball on Fox Television Stations">Fox</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Syndication arrangements</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Local_Media" title="MLB Local Media">MLB Local Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray Television">Gray Television</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">News television series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baseball_Tonight" title="Baseball Tonight">Baseball Tonight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball:_An_Inside_Look" title="Major League Baseball: An Inside Look">Major League Baseball: An Inside Look</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_for_the_Pennant" title="Race for the Pennant">Race for the Pennant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/This_Week_in_Baseball" title="This Week in Baseball">This Week in Baseball</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="MLB_Network_programs20" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">MLB Network programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Stove" title="Hot Stove">Hot Stove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intentional_Talk" title="Intentional Talk">Intentional Talk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB%27s_20_Greatest_Games" title="MLB's 20 Greatest Games">MLB's 20 Greatest Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Network_Showcase" title="MLB Network Showcase">MLB Network Showcase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Tonight" title="MLB Tonight">MLB Tonight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Off_Base" title="Off Base">Off Base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quick_Pitch_(TV_series)" title="Quick Pitch (TV series)">Quick Pitch</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specialty programming</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Bunch" title="The Baseball Bunch">The Baseball Bunch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baseball_IQ" title="Baseball IQ">Baseball IQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baseball%27s_Seasons" title="Baseball's Seasons">Baseball's Seasons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Home_Run_Derby_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Run Derby (TV series)">Home Run Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiner%27s_Korner" title="Kiner's Korner">Kiner's Korner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yankeeography" title="Yankeeography">Yankeeography</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Reality_television_series25" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reality television series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Club_(baseball_reality_show)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Club (baseball reality show)">The Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Franchise_(TV_series)" title="The Franchise (TV series)">The Franchise</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Rebroadcasts12" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rebroadcasts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ESPN_Classic" title="ESPN Classic">ESPN Classic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mets_Classics" class="mw-redirect" title="Mets Classics">Mets Classics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yankees_Classics" title="Yankees Classics">Yankees Classics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Broadcasters by event</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Series_broadcasters" title="List of World Series broadcasters">World Series</a> (<a href="/wiki/World_Series_television_ratings" title="World Series television ratings">television ratings</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_League_Championship_Series_broadcasters" title="List of American League Championship Series broadcasters">ALCS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_League_Championship_Series_broadcasters" title="List of National League Championship Series broadcasters">NLCS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game broadcasters">All-Star Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_League_Division_Series_broadcasters" title="List of American League Division Series broadcasters">ALDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_League_Division_Series_broadcasters" title="List of National League Division Series broadcasters">NLDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_Wild_Card_Round_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Major League Baseball Wild Card Round broadcasters">Wild Card Round</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball#International_broadcasting" title="Major League Baseball">International coverage</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MLB_International" title="MLB International">MLB International</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Australia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ESPN_Australia" title="ESPN Australia">ESPN Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports_(Australia)" title="Fox Sports (Australia)">Fox Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_(Australian_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="One (Australian TV channel)">One</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United Kingdom and Ireland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/TNT_Sports_(United_Kingdom)" title="TNT Sports (United Kingdom)">TNT Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_on_Five" title="MLB on Five">Five</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Sport" title="BBC Sport">BBC Sport</a> (UK only)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Canada</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Sports (Brazil)">Fox Sports</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Japan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fuji_Television" title="Fuji Television">Fuji TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHK" title="NHK">NHK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Broadcasting_System_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo Broadcasting System Television">TBS</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South Korea</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SPOTV" title="SPOTV">SPOTV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Landmark events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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href="/wiki/1938_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1938 Major League Baseball season">1938</a>; <a href="/wiki/1957_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1957 Major League Baseball season">1957</a>–<a href="/wiki/1975_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1975 Major League Baseball season">1975</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Major League Baseball Game of the Week</a> (<a href="/wiki/1957_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1957 Major League Baseball season">1957</a>–<a href="/wiki/1964_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1964 Major League Baseball season">1964</a>; <a href="/wiki/1966_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1966 Major League Baseball season">1966</a>–<a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">1989</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Afternoon_Baseball" title="Sunday Afternoon Baseball">Sunday Afternoon Baseball</a> (<a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1959 Major League Baseball season">1959</a>–<a href="/wiki/1964_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1964 Major League Baseball season">1964</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Baseball" title="Monday Night Baseball">Monday Night Baseball</a> (<a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1967 Major League Baseball season">1967</a>–<a href="/wiki/1975_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1975 Major League Baseball season">1975</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network" title="The Baseball Network">Baseball Night in America</a> (<a href="/wiki/1994_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1994 Major League Baseball season">1994</a>–<a href="/wiki/1995_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1995 Major League Baseball season">1995</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLB_Sunday_Leadoff" title="MLB Sunday Leadoff">MLB Sunday Leadoff</a> (<a href="/wiki/2022_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="2022 Major League Baseball season">2022</a>–<a href="/wiki/2023_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="2023 Major League Baseball season">2023</a>)</li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Miscellaneousprograms27" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gillette_Cavalcade_of_Sports" title="Gillette Cavalcade of Sports">Gillette Cavalcade of Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball:_An_Inside_Look" title="Major League Baseball: An Inside Look">Major League Baseball: An Inside Look</a> (<a href="/wiki/1979_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1979 Major League Baseball season">1979</a>–<a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1989 Major League Baseball season">1989</a>) (pregame show)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USA_Network_Thursday_Night_Baseball" title="USA Network Thursday Night Baseball">USA Network Thursday Night Baseball</a> (<a href="/wiki/1979_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1979 Major League Baseball season">1979</a>–<a href="/wiki/1983_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1983 Major League Baseball season">1983</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network" title="The Baseball Network">The Baseball Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Series_television_ratings" title="World Series television ratings">World Series television ratings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television" title="Major League Baseball on television">Television contracts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1940s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1940s">1940s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1950s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1950s">1950s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1960s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1960s">1960s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1970s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1970s">1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1980s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_1990s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="Major League Baseball on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NBCUniversal_Television_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="NBCUniversal Television Group">NBC's owned and operated</a> <a href="/wiki/Historical_Major_League_Baseball_television_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical Major League Baseball television broadcasters">TV stations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WNBC" title="WNBC">W2XBS</a> (later WNBT) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_New_York_Yankees_broadcasters" title="List of New York Yankees broadcasters">New York Yankees</a>, <a href="/wiki/1939_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1939 New York Yankees season">1939</a>–<a href="/wiki/1945_New_York_Yankees_season" title="1945 New York Yankees season">1945</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WCAU" title="WCAU">WCAU 10</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_broadcasters" title="List of Philadelphia Phillies broadcasters">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="2014 Philadelphia Phillies season">2014</a>–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/KNSD" title="KNSD">KCST 39</a> (later KNSD) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_San_Diego_Padres_broadcasters" title="List of San Diego Padres broadcasters">San Diego Padres</a>, <a href="/wiki/1971_San_Diego_Padres_season" title="1971 San Diego Padres season">1971</a>–<a href="/wiki/1972_San_Diego_Padres_season" title="1972 San Diego Padres season">1972</a>; <a href="/wiki/1984_San_Diego_Padres_season" title="1984 San Diego Padres season">1984</a>–<a href="/wiki/1986_San_Diego_Padres_season" title="1986 San Diego Padres season">1986</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/KNTV" title="KNTV">KNTV 11</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Giants_broadcasters" title="List of San Francisco Giants broadcasters">San Francisco Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/2008_San_Francisco_Giants_season" title="2008 San Francisco Giants season">2008</a>–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC_Sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball on NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_Bay_Area" title="NBC Sports Bay Area">Bay Area</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Giants_broadcasters" title="List of San Francisco Giants broadcasters">San Francisco Giants</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_California" title="NBC Sports California">California</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Oakland_Athletics_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Oakland Athletics broadcasters">Oakland Athletics</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_Chicago" title="NBC Sports Chicago">Chicago</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Cubs_broadcasters" title="List of Chicago Cubs broadcasters">Chicago Cubs</a> [<a href="/wiki/2004_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="2004 Chicago Cubs season">2004</a>–<a href="/wiki/2019_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="2019 Chicago Cubs season">2019</a>] and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chicago_White_Sox_broadcasters" title="List of Chicago White Sox broadcasters">White Sox</a> [<a href="/wiki/2004_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="2004 Chicago White Sox season">2004</a>–<a href="/wiki/2024_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="2024 Chicago White Sox season">2024</a>])</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports_Philadelphia" title="NBC Sports Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_broadcasters" title="List of Philadelphia Phillies broadcasters">Philadelphia Phillies</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SNY" title="SNY">New York</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_New_York_Mets_broadcasters" title="List of New York Mets broadcasters">New York Mets</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sponsor_(commercial)" title="Sponsor (commercial)">Sponsors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillette" title="Gillette">Gillette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Bohemian" title="National Bohemian">National Bohemian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball on NBC broadcasters">Commentators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network_announcers" title="The Baseball Network announcers">The Baseball Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game broadcasters">All-Star Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_League_Championship_Series_broadcasters" title="List of American League Championship Series broadcasters">ALCS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_League_Division_Series_broadcasters" title="List of American League Division Series broadcasters">ALDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_League_Championship_Series_broadcasters" title="List of National League Championship Series broadcasters">NLCS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_League_Division_Series_broadcasters" title="List of National League Division Series broadcasters">NLDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Series_broadcasters" title="List of World Series broadcasters">World Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball Game of the Week broadcasters">Game of the Week</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_prime_time_television_broadcasters" title="List of Major League Baseball prime time television broadcasters">Prime time</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Play-by-play announcers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Allen" title="Mel Allen">Mel Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Barber" title="Red Barber">Red Barber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Benetti" title="Jason Benetti">Jason Benetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Blattner" title="Buddy Blattner">Buddy Blattner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Brennaman" title="Marty Brennaman">Marty Brennaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Brickhouse" title="Jack Brickhouse">Jack Brickhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Britt" title="Jim Britt">Jim Britt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Buck" title="Jack Buck">Jack Buck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brendan_Burke_(sportscaster)" title="Brendan Burke (sportscaster)">Brendan Burke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Caray" title="Harry Caray">Harry Caray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skip_Caray" title="Skip Caray">Skip Caray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Carpenter_(sportscaster)" title="Bob Carpenter (sportscaster)">Bob Carpenter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Coleman" title="Ken Coleman">Ken Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Enberg" title="Dick Enberg">Dick Enberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Enis" title="Bill Enis">Bill Enis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola" title="Joe Garagiola">Joe Garagiola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Gumbel" title="Greg Gumbel">Greg Gumbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merle_Harmon" title="Merle Harmon">Merle Harmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Harwell" title="Ernie Harwell">Ernie Harwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Helfer" title="Al Helfer">Al Helfer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Hodges" title="Russ Hodges">Russ Hodges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Jones_(sportscaster)" title="Charlie Jones (sportscaster)">Charlie Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Kell" title="George Kell">George Kell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Kelly_(broadcaster)" title="Gene Kelly (broadcaster)">Gene Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Martin" title="Ned Martin">Ned Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Miller" title="Jon Miller">Jon Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monte_Moore" title="Monte Moore">Monte Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Neal_(Atlanta_sportscaster)" title="Bob Neal (Atlanta sportscaster)">Bob Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Nelson" title="Lindsey Nelson">Lindsey Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Donnell_(sportscaster)" title="Bill O'Donnell (sportscaster)">Bill O'Donnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Prince" title="Bob Prince">Bob Prince</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Randolph" title="Jay Randolph">Jay Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Rizzuto" title="Phil Rizzuto">Phil Rizzuto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Robinson_(sportscaster)" title="Ted Robinson (sportscaster)">Ted Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Scott_(sportscaster)" title="Ray Scott (sportscaster)">Ray Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Slowes" title="Charlie Slowes">Charlie Slowes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Stockton" title="Dick Stockton">Dick Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Thompson" title="Chuck Thompson">Chuck Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Thorne" title="Gary Thorne">Gary Thorne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Van_Wieren" title="Pete Van Wieren">Pete Van Wieren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Vasgersian" title="Matt Vasgersian">Matt Vasgersian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wolff" title="Bob Wolff">Bob Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Woods" title="Jim Woods">Jim Woods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Zabriskie" title="Steve Zabriskie">Steve Zabriskie</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Color commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sal_Bando" title="Sal Bando">Sal Bando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Bevacqua" title="Kurt Bevacqua">Kurt Bevacqua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bucky_Dent" title="Bucky Dent">Bucky Dent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Dierker" title="Larry Dierker">Larry Dierker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Drysdale" title="Don Drysdale">Don Drysdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Durocher" title="Leo Durocher">Leo Durocher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola" title="Joe Garagiola">Joe Garagiola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Harrelson" title="Ken Harrelson">Ken Harrelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Haney" title="Fred Haney">Fred Haney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Hutton" title="Tommy Hutton">Tommy Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Kaat" title="Jim Kaat">Jim Kaat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_Luciano" title="Ron Luciano">Ron Luciano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lowenstein" title="John Lowenstein">John Lowenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mantle" title="Mickey Mantle">Mickey Mantle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_McCarver" title="Tim McCarver">Tim McCarver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_McCovey" title="Willie McCovey">Willie McCovey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Morgan" title="Joe Morgan">Joe Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Murcer" title="Bobby Murcer">Bobby Murcer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wes_Parker" title="Wes Parker">Wes Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Patek" title="Freddie Patek">Freddie Patek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Reese" title="Pee Wee Reese">Pee Wee Reese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Rosen" title="Al Rosen">Al Rosen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Seaver" title="Tom Seaver">Tom Seaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Shannon" title="Mike Shannon">Mike Shannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Torre" title="Joe Torre">Joe Torre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Uecker" title="Bob Uecker">Bob Uecker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veeck" title="Bill Veeck">Bill Veeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maury_Wills" title="Maury Wills">Maury Wills</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Guest commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Dempsey" title="Rick Dempsey">Rick Dempsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Larkin" title="Barry Larkin">Barry Larkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Schmidt" title="Mike Schmidt">Mike Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Sutton" title="Don Sutton">Don Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Valentine" title="Bobby Valentine">Bobby Valentine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hosts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Adamle" title="Mike Adamle">Mike Adamle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marv_Albert" title="Marv Albert">Marv Albert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Len_Berman" title="Len Berman">Len Berman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Cefalo" title="Jimmy Cefalo">Jimmy Cefalo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Fareed" title="Ahmed Fareed">Ahmed Fareed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayle_Gardner" title="Gayle Gardner">Gayle Gardner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel" title="Bryant Gumbel">Bryant Gumbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Macatee" title="Bill Macatee">Bill Macatee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Olbermann" title="Keith Olbermann">Keith Olbermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Rashad" title="Ahmad Rashad">Ahmad Rashad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Storm" title="Hannah Storm">Hannah Storm</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Field reporters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gray_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Gray (sportscaster)">Jim Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Roberts" title="Jimmy Roberts">Jimmy Roberts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Sager" title="Craig Sager">Craig Sager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wischusen" title="Bob Wischusen">Bob Wischusen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regular season games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">#715</a> (<a href="/wiki/1974_Atlanta_Braves_season" title="1974 Atlanta Braves season">1974</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandberg_Game" title="Sandberg Game">"The Sandberg Game"</a> (<a href="/wiki/1984_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1984 Chicago Cubs season">1984</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tie-breaker games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1951_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1951 National League tie-breaker series">1951 National League tie-breaker series</a> (Games 2–<a href="/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)" title="Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)">3</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1962 National League tie-breaker series">1962 National League tie-breaker series</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">LCS games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ozzie_Smith#"Go_crazy,_folks"" title="Ozzie Smith">"Go crazy folks!"</a> (<a href="/wiki/1985_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 National League Championship Series">1985</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Maier_incident" title="Jeffrey Maier incident">Jeffrey Maier</a> (<a href="/wiki/1996_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1996 American League Championship Series">1996</a>)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Grand_Slam_Single" title="Grand Slam Single">Grand Slam Single</a>" (<a href="/wiki/1999_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1999 National League Championship Series">1999</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">World Series games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subway_Series" title="Subway Series">Subway Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Catch_(baseball)" title="The Catch (baseball)">"The Catch" (1954)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Larsen%27s_perfect_game" title="Don Larsen's perfect game">Don Larsen's perfect game (1956)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Mazeroski%27s_1960_World_Series_home_run" title="Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series home run">Bill Mazeroski's home run (1960)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_World_Series#Game_5" title="1969 World Series">"Shoe polish incident"</a> (<a href="/wiki/1969_New_York_Mets_season" title="1969 New York Mets season">1969</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Fisk%27s_1975_World_Series_home_run" title="Carlton Fisk's 1975 World Series home run">"Fisk Waves it Fair"</a> (<a href="/wiki/1975_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1975 Boston Red Sox season">1975</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Sergio" title="Michael Sergio">Michael Sergio</a> (<a href="/wiki/1986_World_Series" title="1986 World Series">1986</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Buckner%27s_1986_World_Series_error" title="Bill Buckner's 1986 World Series error">"It gets through Buckner!"</a> (<a href="/wiki/1986_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1986 Boston Red Sox season">1986</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Gibson%27s_1988_World_Series_home_run" title="Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run">Kirk Gibson's home run (1988)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Century_Team" title="Major League Baseball All-Century Team">All-Century Team (1999)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">World Series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1947_World_Series" title="1947 World Series">1947</a> (Games 1 and 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_World_Series" title="1948 World Series">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_World_Series" title="1949 World Series">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_World_Series" title="1950 World Series">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_World_Series" title="1951 World Series">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_World_Series" title="1952 World Series">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_World_Series" title="1953 World Series">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_World_Series" title="1954 World Series">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_World_Series" title="1955 World Series">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_World_Series" title="1956 World Series">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_World_Series" title="1957 World Series">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_World_Series" title="1958 World Series">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_World_Series" title="1959 World Series">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_World_Series" title="1960 World Series">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_World_Series" title="1961 World Series">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_World_Series" title="1962 World Series">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_World_Series" title="1963 World Series">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_World_Series" title="1964 World Series">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_World_Series" title="1965 World Series">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_World_Series" title="1966 World Series">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_World_Series" title="1967 World Series">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_World_Series" title="1969 World Series">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_World_Series" title="1970 World Series">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_World_Series" title="1971 World Series">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_World_Series" title="1972 World Series">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_World_Series" title="1973 World Series">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_World_Series" title="1974 World Series">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_World_Series" title="1975 World Series">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_World_Series" title="1976 World Series">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_World_Series" title="1978 World Series">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_World_Series" title="1980 World Series">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_World_Series" title="1982 World Series">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_World_Series" title="1984 World Series">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_World_Series" title="1986 World Series">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_World_Series" title="1988 World Series">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_World_Series" title="1995 World Series">1995</a> (Games 2, 3, and 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_World_Series" title="1997 World Series">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_World_Series" title="1999 World Series">1999</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">AL Championship Series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1969_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1969 American League Championship Series">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1970 American League Championship Series">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1971 American League Championship Series">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1972 American League Championship Series">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1973 American League Championship Series">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1974 American League Championship Series">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1975 American League Championship Series">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1977 American League Championship Series">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1979 American League Championship Series">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1981 American League Championship Series">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1983 American League Championship Series">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 American League Championship Series">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1987 American League Championship Series">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 American League Championship Series">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1995 American League Championship Series">1995</a> (Games 3–6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1996 American League Championship Series">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_American_League_Championship_Series" title="1998 American League Championship Series">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_American_League_Championship_Series" title="2000 American League Championship Series">2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NL Championship Series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1969_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1969 National League Championship Series">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1970 National League Championship Series">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1971 National League Championship Series">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1972 National League Championship Series">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1973 National League Championship Series">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1974 National League Championship Series">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1975 National League Championship Series">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1977 National League Championship Series">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1979 National League Championship Series">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1981 National League Championship Series">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1983 National League Championship Series">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1985 National League Championship Series">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1987 National League Championship Series">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1989 National League Championship Series">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1995 National League Championship Series">1995</a> (Games 3–4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1997 National League Championship Series">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_National_League_Championship_Series" title="1999 National League Championship Series">1999</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">AL Division Series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1995_American_League_Division_Series" title="1995 American League Division Series">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_American_League_Division_Series" title="1996 American League Division Series">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_American_League_Division_Series" title="1997 American League Division Series">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_American_League_Division_Series" title="1998 American League Division Series">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_American_League_Division_Series" title="1999 American League Division Series">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_American_League_Division_Series" title="2000 American League Division Series">2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NL Division Series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1981_National_League_Division_Series" title="1981 National League Division Series">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_National_League_Division_Series" title="1995 National League Division Series">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_National_League_Division_Series" title="1996 National League Division Series">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_National_League_Division_Series" title="1997 National League Division Series">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_National_League_Division_Series" title="1998 National League Division Series">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_National_League_Division_Series" title="1999 National League Division Series">1999</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">All-Star Game</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1950_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1950 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1951 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1952 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1955 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1956 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1957 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1958</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1960 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1960 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li>1962: <a href="/wiki/1962_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1962_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1963 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1964 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1966 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1975 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1979 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1981 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1987 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="2000 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Seasons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-<a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">Game of the Week</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1947_in_baseball" title="1947 in baseball">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_in_baseball" title="1948 in baseball">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_in_baseball" title="1949 in baseball">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_in_baseball" title="1950 in baseball">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_in_baseball" title="1951 in baseball">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_in_baseball" title="1952 in baseball">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_in_baseball" title="1953 in baseball">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_in_baseball" title="1954 in baseball">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_in_baseball" title="1955 in baseball">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_in_baseball" title="1956 in baseball">1956</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Game of the Week era</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1957_in_baseball" title="1957 in baseball">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_in_baseball" title="1958 in baseball">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_in_baseball" title="1959 in baseball">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_in_baseball" title="1960 in baseball">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_in_baseball" title="1961 in baseball">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_in_baseball" title="1962 in baseball">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_in_baseball" title="1963 in baseball">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_in_baseball" title="1964 in baseball">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_in_baseball" title="1965 in baseball">1965</a> (<a href="/wiki/1965_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> and <a href="/wiki/1965_World_Series" title="1965 World Series">World Series</a> only)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_in_baseball" title="1966 in baseball">1966</a> (exclusive coverage begins)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_in_baseball" title="1967 in baseball">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_in_baseball" title="1968 in baseball">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_in_baseball" title="1969 in baseball">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_in_baseball" title="1970 in baseball">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_in_baseball" title="1971 in baseball">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_in_baseball" title="1972 in baseball">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_in_baseball" title="1973 in baseball">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_in_baseball" title="1974 in baseball">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_in_baseball" title="1975 in baseball">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_in_baseball" title="1976 in baseball">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_in_baseball" title="1977 in baseball">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_in_baseball" title="1978 in baseball">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_in_baseball" title="1979 in baseball">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_in_baseball" title="1980 in baseball">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_in_baseball" title="1981 in baseball">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_in_baseball" title="1982 in baseball">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_in_baseball" title="1983 in baseball">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_in_baseball" title="1984 in baseball">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_in_baseball" title="1985 in baseball">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_in_baseball" title="1986 in baseball">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_in_baseball" title="1987 in baseball">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_in_baseball" title="1988 in baseball">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_in_baseball" title="1989 in baseball">1989</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/The_Baseball_Network" title="The Baseball Network">Baseball Network</a> era</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1994_in_baseball" title="1994 in baseball">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_in_baseball" title="1995 in baseball">1995</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">No regular season coverage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1996_in_baseball" title="1996 in baseball">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_baseball" title="1997 in baseball">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_in_baseball" title="1998 in baseball">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_in_baseball" title="1999 in baseball">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_in_baseball" title="2000 in baseball">2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/MLB_Sunday_Leadoff" title="MLB Sunday Leadoff">MLB Sunday Leadoff</a> era</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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title="Ford Bond">Ford Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Brennaman" title="Marty Brennaman">Marty Brennaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Brickhouse" title="Jack Brickhouse">Jack Brickhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_Brown_(sportswriter)" title="Warren Brown (sportswriter)">Warren Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Buck" title="Jack Buck">Jack Buck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Caray" title="Harry Caray">Harry Caray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Carlin" title="Phillips Carlin">Phillips Carlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Carneal" title="Herb Carneal">Herb Carneal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boake_Carter" title="Boake Carter">Boake Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Coleman" title="Ken Coleman">Ken Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Daniels_(sportscaster)" title="Dan Daniels (sportscaster)">Dan Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Doggett" title="Jerry Doggett">Jerry Doggett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Dudley" title="Jimmy Dudley">Jimmy Dudley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Elson" title="Bob Elson">Bob Elson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Elston" title="Gene Elston">Gene Elston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Garagiola" title="Joe Garagiola">Joe Garagiola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Gillespie" title="Earl Gillespie">Earl Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merle_Harmon" title="Merle Harmon">Merle Harmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Harwell" title="Ernie Harwell">Ernie Harwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Helfer" title="Al Helfer">Al Helfer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Hodges" title="Russ Hodges">Russ Hodges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waite_Hoyt" title="Waite Hoyt">Waite Hoyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Kell" title="George Kell">George Kell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Kiner" title="Ralph Kiner">Ralph Kiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Kubek" title="Tony Kubek">Tony Kubek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_MacLean_(sportscaster)" title="John MacLean (sportscaster)">John MacLean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Martin" title="Ned Martin">Ned Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_McNamee" title="Graham McNamee">Graham McNamee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monte_Moore" title="Monte Moore">Monte Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Murphy_(sportscaster)" title="Bob Murphy (sportscaster)">Bob Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Neal_(Cleveland_sportscaster)" title="Bob Neal (Cleveland sportscaster)">Bob Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsey_Nelson" title="Lindsey Nelson">Lindsey Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Donnell_(sportscaster)" title="Bill O'Donnell (sportscaster)">Bill O'Donnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Prince" title="Bob Prince">Bob Prince</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Quinlan" title="Jack Quinlan">Jack Quinlan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Reese" title="Pee Wee Reese">Pee Wee Reese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Rizzuto" title="Phil Rizzuto">Phil Rizzuto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/By_Saam" title="By Saam">By Saam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vin_Scully" title="Vin Scully">Vin Scully</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Simpson (sportscaster)">Jim Simpson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Thompson" title="Chuck Thompson">Chuck Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ty_Tyson" title="Ty Tyson">Ty Tyson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blaine_Walsh" title="Blaine Walsh">Blaine Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maury_Wills" title="Maury Wills">Maury Wills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wolff" title="Bob Wolff">Bob Wolff</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babe_Ruth%27s_called_shot" title="Babe Ruth's called shot">Babe Ruth's called shot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Mazeroski%27s_1960_World_Series_home_run" title="Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series home run">Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series home run</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Fisk%27s_1975_World_Series_home_run" title="Carlton Fisk's 1975 World Series home run">Carlton Fisk's 1975 World Series home run</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Tie-breaker_games17" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tie-breaker games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1962_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1962 National League tie-breaker series">1962 National League tie-breaker series</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">All-Star Game</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1933_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1935 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1936 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1939 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1940 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1957 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1958</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1960 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1960 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li>1962: <a href="/wiki/1962_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">First</a>–<a href="/wiki/1962_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1963 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1964 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1966 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1975 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1975</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">World Series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1927_World_Series" title="1927 World Series">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_World_Series" title="1928 World Series">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_World_Series" title="1929 World Series">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_World_Series" title="1930 World Series">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_World_Series" title="1931 World Series">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_World_Series" title="1932 World Series">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_World_Series" 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