You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, And The Perfect Marriage Of Sports And Television - Plot & Excerpts
And from 1976 to 1989, I did every season of Monday Night Baseball, as well as five All-Star Games, and some memorable—and unbelievable—postseason series. In 1979 and 1981, I split the World Series play-by-play with Keith Jackson. Then, in 1983, I broadcast the entire series with Howard Cosell and Earl Weaver. It was the year after Weaver had stepped away from managing, and his Orioles, led by his successor, Joe Altobelli, ended up beating the Phillies in five games. Nineteen eighty-five was the year that Howard Cosell’s book got him removed from the booth just before the World Series started. I was delighted when Tim McCarver replaced him. Just before we went on the air for Game 1, I asked Tim if he was more nervous as a player or a broadcaster starting the World Series. Tim looked at me and said, “Are you kidding? Broadcaster!” Then, with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals facing off in an all-Missouri affair, the Series was marked (or, if you were a Cardinal fan, marred) by umpire Don Denkinger’s blown call at first base in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6.
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