[Longhair_and_Leather]

"He's the last of a breed in another sense, too, continuing to work solo. To those who have grown up accustomed to multiple voices in the booth and might consider this an anachronism, I respond: Why would you rather have two guys gabbing with each other instead of one talking directly to you, the listener?

This guy never heard Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn!

Harry Kalas, Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Vin Scully. All of them were great, and at a time baseball was great--before the 1994 strike.

[LeavingNewYork]

Mel Allen w/Red Barber.....

and..one of the most enjoyable, yet unlikely broadcasting teams was Phil Rizzuto, Bill White and Frank Messer.

[Isabel C.]

“He’s the last of a breed in another sense, too, continuing to work solo. To those who have grown up accustomed to multiple voices in the booth and might consider this an anachronism, I respond: Why would you rather have two guys gabbing with each other instead of one talking directly to you, the listener?”

The problem I have with most of the 2-man and 3-man baseball broadcasting teams today is the constant joke telling, poking fun at each other, giggling, and commenting on topics unrelated to the game at hand (”Hey Joe, you’ll never guess who I ran into the other day. Your old high school baseball coach! He said to say hi.”). When I was growing up in central California, I listened to the Oakland A’s games on the radio, and their play-by-play announcer was Monte Moore. He usually worked alone in the booth, and it was wonderful to listen to.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Harry Kalas, Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Vin Scully. All of them were great, and at a time baseball was great--before the 1994 strike.

Don't forget two of the best ever ... the ol' Redbird himself, Red Barber, and the great Ernie Harwell.