Who Was the Best Play-by-Play Announcer You Ever Heard?

[bijanc]

Regardless of the sport, whom did you most enjoy listening to call games/meets?

[jhc68]

Chick Hearn. Period.

Though I like Vin Scully a lot, too

[bambam]

Re: Who Was the Best Play-by-Play Announcer You Ever Heard?

Regardless of the sport, whom did you most enjoy listening to call games/meets?

Jim McKay - no doubt about it

[Whitman]

Bob Prince who did the play by play for the Pittsburgh Pirates during the
Clemente/Stargell years.

[DrJay]

Cawood Ledford, longtime (1953-1992) radio voice of the Kentucky Wildcats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawood_Ledford

[dukehjsteve]

Red Barber

[Noo Yawkah]

Marty Glickman

[Friar]

Then- Dan Kelly, Now- Doc Emrick

[Walt Murphy]

Then- Dan Kelly, Now- Doc Emrick

Did you now that Doc Emrick worked on a series of track meets for CBS in Europe in 1994? I had no idea at the time that he was so respected in the hockey world, but I was impressed at how hard he worked to get up to speed for a new sport(for him). Plus, he was a great guy to work with.

[jazzcyclist]

Phil Liggett

[Arnie]

Red Barber

Without a doubt.

[Pego]

T&F - Sean Pickering
Diving - Cynthia Potter
Tennis - Mary Carillo
College football - Pam Ward
Baseball - Bob Uecker (radio)

[SQUACKEE]

The English guy who does the big European meets and The Tour of France. I should know his name! ops:

[tandfman]

Then- Dan Kelly, Now- Doc Emrick

Hockey? Foster Hewitt and René Lecavalier.

[skyin' brian]

Harry Doyle

...okay, serious answer, might as well go with John Rooney. Always liked his call of the White Sox, and oddly enough, the year he moved to St. Louis, I moved from Chicagoland to the Saint Louis area as well. What makes that more interesting is that he called the White Sox WS victory in 2005 and the 2006 Cardinals WS championship.