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The Baseball Network announcers

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Source revisionDec 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ7715736 ↗
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The following is a list of announcers who called Major League Baseball telecasts for the joint venture (lasting for the 1994–1995 seasons) between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC called The Baseball Network. Announcers who represented each of the teams playing in the respective games were typically paired with each other on regular season Baseball Night in America telecasts. ABC used Al Michaels, Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver and Lesley Visser as the lead broadcasting team. Meanwhile, NBC used Bob Costas, Joe Morgan, Bob Uecker and Jim Gray as their lead broadcasting team.

Announcers, alphabetically

A

Joe Angel

Jack Arute (field reporter for ABC)

Richie Ashburn

B

Johnny Bench (field reporter for NBC, 1994)

Chris Berman

Steve Blass

Bert Blyleven

Marty Brennaman

Thom Brennaman

Steve Busby

Joe Buck

C

Dave Campbell

Harry Caray

Skip Caray

Herb Carneal

Bob Carpenter

Rick Cerone

Tom Cheek

Gary Cohen

Jerry Coleman

Bob Costas

D

Rick Dempsey

Larry Dierker

Camille Dube

E

Dick Enberg

F

Ron Fairly

Mike Flanagan

Lanny Frattare

George Frazier

G

Joe Garagiola

George Grande

Jim Gray (field reporter for NBC)

Hank Greenwald

Greg Gumbel (NBC's Baseball Night in America host, 1994)

H

Milo Hamilton

Tom Hamilton

Tom Hammond

Ken Harrelson

Ernie Harwell

Keith Hernandez

Jim Hughson

Al Hrabosky

Jim Hunter

Tommy Hutton

K

Jim Kaat

Paul Kennedy

Bill King

Harry Kalas

Duane Kuiper

M

Garry Maddox

Buck Martinez

Denny Matthews

Tim McCarver

Sean McDonough

Al Michaels

Jon Miller

Rick Monday

Bob Montgomery

Joe Morgan

Bobby Murcer

Bob Murphy

Brent Musburger

N

Dave Niehaus

P

Steve Palermo

Jim Palmer

Greg Papa

Steve Physioc

R

Claude Raymond

Jerry Remy

Ted Robinson

John Rooney

S

Billy Sample

John Saunders (ABC's Baseball Night in America host)

Mike Schmidt

Ken Singleton

Lary Sorensen

Paul Splittorff

Dewayne Staats

Dick Stockton

Hannah Storm (field reporter for NBC, 1994; NBC's Baseball Night in America host; 1995)

T

Gary Thorne

Roger Twibell

U

Bob Uecker

V

Dave Van Horne

Pete Van Wieren

Lesley Visser (field reporter for ABC)

W

Suzyn Waldman

John Wathan

Chris Wheeler

Ken Wilson

Z

Steve Zabriskie

Baseball Night in America commentator pairings

1994 schedule

All games aired on ABC; due to the strike NBC was unable to air its slate of games, which were supposed to begin on August 26.

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