Weep not for Tim McCarver, for he does not weep for himself.
No, the Hall of Fame announcer, who will call his last World Series for Fox beginning Wednesday, Oct. 23, is more than prepared for life after the broadcast booth. In fact, he's ready to embrace his new lifestyle after 55 years in and around baseball.
"I'm handling it like it's a celebration, and it's certainly a celebration of that many years in the game and that many years doing postseason baseball. I'm enjoying every minute of it," he says to Zap2it, laughing. "I've never done this before, and I didn't know whether you should be melancholy at a time like this or not. But I'm not; I'm not at all.
"And the other thing is I'm not retiring," he adds. "I'm backing off, and that's what should happen when you turn 72. ... It should happen because of the travel, because...
No, the Hall of Fame announcer, who will call his last World Series for Fox beginning Wednesday, Oct. 23, is more than prepared for life after the broadcast booth. In fact, he's ready to embrace his new lifestyle after 55 years in and around baseball.
"I'm handling it like it's a celebration, and it's certainly a celebration of that many years in the game and that many years doing postseason baseball. I'm enjoying every minute of it," he says to Zap2it, laughing. "I've never done this before, and I didn't know whether you should be melancholy at a time like this or not. But I'm not; I'm not at all.
"And the other thing is I'm not retiring," he adds. "I'm backing off, and that's what should happen when you turn 72. ... It should happen because of the travel, because...
- 10/23/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
If Tim McCarver hadn't been offered a pair of broadcasting contracts as his playing days were winding down in the late 1970s, he surmises he'd have gone off to law school -- and not been all that thrilled about it.
But the Philadelphia Phillies' president at the time, Bill Giles (with an assist from the Toronto Blue Jays), saw something in his loquacious backup catcher that told him he'd make an excellent analyst, and 30-plus years, thousands of hours of game calls, and mountains of accolades and awards later, the 71-year-old Tennessean has a place in baseball broadcasting history with his election this summer to the broadcaster's wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
McCarver and Joe Buck call the action when Fox broadcasts the 2012 World Series beginning Wednesday, Oct. 24.
McCarver, who played for the Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos from 1959 to 1980, describes his style of analysis as "first-guessing,...
But the Philadelphia Phillies' president at the time, Bill Giles (with an assist from the Toronto Blue Jays), saw something in his loquacious backup catcher that told him he'd make an excellent analyst, and 30-plus years, thousands of hours of game calls, and mountains of accolades and awards later, the 71-year-old Tennessean has a place in baseball broadcasting history with his election this summer to the broadcaster's wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
McCarver and Joe Buck call the action when Fox broadcasts the 2012 World Series beginning Wednesday, Oct. 24.
McCarver, who played for the Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos from 1959 to 1980, describes his style of analysis as "first-guessing,...
- 10/24/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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