Tag: Bob Prince
By building a team within the Pirates; While Rosey Rowswell; “Aunt Minnie; Later Bob Prince would dominate!”
By CURT SMITH Your average eight-year-old likes baseball’s soul-crushing poke—the homer. Announcers like it, too. […]
Curt Smith shares his exciting series on baseball broadcasters; He profiles Harold Arlin in Pittsburgh
To celebrate the 2025 season, this week we begin a new series, Voices of Summer, […]
A World Series of runaway wins and punishing losses; Yet it all came down to a Bill Mazeroski crusher!
WANT TO ENLIVEN BASEBALL? HEED THE 1960 WORLD SERIES PART FOUR: A HOME RUN […]
In 1960, the Bucs’ Bill Mazeroski won the World Series with a 9th inning crusher in Game #7!
WANT TO ENLIVEN BASEBALL? HEED THE 1960 WORLD SERIES. Criticized by some for seeming old-timey, […]
Curt Smith focuses on the 50s through the 70s; from characters like Bob Uecker through Bob Prince
We continue our discussion about baseball broadcasting with historian, Curt Smith, picking it up […]
Pittsburgh has never had a more colorful voice than Bob Prince! “All we need is a bloop and a blast!”
To hail baseball’s return, we continue our series of profiles of top past and […]
Mike Patrick: Will Miss ESPN Crew; Opposes Putting Play-by-Play Team in Studio
Mike Patrick, whose name was almost interchangeable with ESPN for some 36 years, has left the network. Mike’s first ESPN assignment was in 1982.