| Sound Profiles Sound Profiles is an audio collection of interviews featuring some of the most respected baseball broadcast voices. Pete Van Wieren-Atlanta Braves The 2007 Major League Baseball season is Pete Van Wieren’s 32nd as a play-by-play broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves. In 2006, Van Wieren won the Georgia Sportscaster of the Year Award from the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, marking the 10th time he won the honor (1980, 1988-95, 2006). He was selected as Atlanta’s Favorite Sportscaster in 1977 by the Atlanta Journal. The interview begins with Pete's response to the question, "What is the secret to your longevity in one city?" Pete Van Wieren Sound Profile. (March 2007) Denny Matthews-Kansas City Royals The "Voice of the Royals" has broadcast exclusively for Kansas CIty, without interruption, in five different decades. Matthews has seen more Royals games than anyone else during his 38 years with Kansas City. He was chosen from more than 300 applicants for the No. 2 announcer position alongside Bud Blattner prior to the Royals initial season in 1969, before taking over the No. 1 job following the 1975 season. Matthews was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. Denny Matthews Sound Profile (April 2007) Jerry Howarth-Toronto Blue Jays Jerry Howarth is the lead voice of the Toronto Blue Jays and is in his 26th season with the club in 2007. In 1981, he joined the late Tom Cheek to form the Jays radio team. His baseball radio career began in 1974 with the Tacoma Twins and he eventually took a position with the Salt Lake Gulls in 1976. Howarth graduated from the University of Santa Clara in 1968 with a degree in Economics. Jerry Howarth Sound Profile (April 2007) Dave Niehaus-Seattle Mariners Dave Niehaus has broadcast Mariners baseball since the club’s inception in 1977. He is recognized as one of the best and most exciting broadcasters in the game. In 2004, Niehaus was named Washington State Broadcaster of the Year by the Washington State Association of Broadcasters. He was also inducted into the Puget Sound Sports Hall of Fame. The Washington Council of the Blind gave him the 2004 One World Award. Niehaus was the top vote-getter in the fan balloting for the 2005 Ford C. Frick Award for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Dave Niehaus Sound Profile (May 2007) John Gordon-Minnesota Twins Detroit native John Gordon began his broadcasting career with the Spartanburg Phillies in 1965 after graduating from Indiana University. After five years with Spartanburg, Gordon joined the Baltimore Orioles where he remained until 1973, when he accepted the broadcasting job at the University of Virginia to become the voice of Cavaliers football and basketball. From there he joined the Yankees’ Class AAA affiliate Columbus Clippers from 1977-81, before moving to New York in 1982. For his work with the Spartanburg Phillies, Gordon was inducted into the South Atlantic League’s Hall of Fame on June 19, 2001. He has been broadcasting Twins baseball since 1987. John Gordon Sound Profile (May 2007) Tom Hamilton-Cleveland Indians Tom Hamilton, the "Voice of the Indians," is in his 18th season of calling Cleveland Indians baseball games on radio in 2007. In his 17 seasons since 1990, Hamilton has called 57 postseason games for the Tribe from 1994-99 and 2001, including all six (6) games from the 1995 World Series and all seven (7) games from the 1997 World Series. He is a four-time recipient of the Ohio Sportscaster of the Year Award (1997, 2000, 2001, and 2004). Tom Hamilton Sound Profile (June 2007) Eric Nadel-Texas Rangers Eric Nadel is in his 13th year as the lead voice on the Texas Rangers radio broadcasts on KRLD and the team’s radio network. It marks his 29th year broadcasting Rangers baseball, the longest tenure of any announcer in the history of the franchise and one of the longest continuous current stints with one team in the American League. A four-time recipient (1999, 2001, 2002, and 2006) of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Texas Sportscaster of the Year Award, and two-time winner of the Associated Press award for best play-by-play in Texas, Nadel is a graduate of Brown University. Eric Nadel Sound Profile (June 2007) Joe Castiglione-Boston Red Sox The 2007 season marks Joe Castiglione's 25th season behind the microphone on Red Sox radio. He previously handled play-by-play for the Cleveland Indians on television in 1979 and 1982 and broadcast the Milwaukee Brewers on TV in 1981. The Hamden, Conn., native has announced the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, and did college basketball on New England Sports Network for six winters. During the off-season, he teaches broadcast journalism courses at Northeastern University and Franklin Pierce College. Joe Castiglione Sound Profile (July 2007) |
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