On The Radio Ep. 3

SERIES FOUR: PADRES VS. GIANTS:

The old song goes, "If your going to San Francisco be sure to put a flower in your hair". That might be sage advice for someone from the 1960's but these days if you are in San Francisco and at AT&T park bring your portable radio (or your At Bat app on your phone) and tune in to one of America's best play-by-play guys and receiver of the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 Jon Miller.

According to the San Francisco Giants Broadcasters page Jon Miller, honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the 2010 Ford C. Frick award winner for baseball broadcasting excellence, the "Voice of the Giants", enters his 22nd season in the broadcast booth on KNBR Radio,

NBC Bay Area and NBC Sports Bay Area. Miller was thrilled to broadcast his 16th World Series in 2014 as the Giants won it all for the third time in five years. Miller was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2014. In 1990 when ESPN TV first began its coverage of Major League Baseball, Miller was chosen as the first play-by-play commentator on the award-winning ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game of the week broadcast. Miller and his Hall of Fame partner,Joe Morgan, teamed up on the prime time telecast for 21 seasons. During his tenure at ESPN, he was nominated twice for a national Emmy Award, and broadcast 13 consecutive World Series on ESPN Radio.

He has broadcast 16 World Series overall. He was also nominated six times for an "ACE" award, emblematic of cable television excellence, and won the award in 1991 - the first ESPN play-by-play announcer to win the award, and 1996. Miller was named National Sportscaster of the Year by the American Sportscasters Association (ASA) in 1998.

That same year, Miller was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association of America (NSSAA). In 2016, Miller received a Northern California Emmy Award, the third local Emmy for his Giants television work. Prior to his work on ESPN, Miller broadcast an occasional game on NBC-TV with either Tony Kubek or Joe Garagaiola. Miller spent 14 years with the Baltimore Orioles before coming to the Giants.

Prior to joining Baltimore in 1983, the talented broadcaster spent two seasons with the Texas Rangers (1978-79) and three seasons with the Boston Red Sox (1980-82). Miller got his first baseball play-by-play job in 1974 at age 22 calling radio and TV for that year's World Series Champion Oakland Athletics.

Duane Kuiper, a ten-time Emmy award-winning broadcaster, begins his 34th season as a Major League announcer. He embarks on his 25th consecutive year in the NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Bay Area and KNBR Radio broadcast booths in 2018. Kuiper was one of 10 finalists for the 2014 Ford C. Frick Award for baseball broadcasting excellence.

Kuiper emerged as one of the top three fan selections in online voting. The former 11-year big league infielder has received ten local Emmy awards for his distinguished broadcasting career: On-Camera talent (6); Sports Live Broadcast (2); and Sporting Event/Game-Live (2). He provided commentary for the Giants from 1987-92 and served a one-year stint with the expansion Colorado Rockies in 1993.

The former infielder spent the last four years of his career with the Giants, following seven campaigns with the Cleveland Indians. In 2004 he was voted by Cleveland fans as one of the 100 greatest players in Tribe history. After retiring in 1985, Kuiper provided commentary on Giants radio and TV broadcasts through the end of that season, and had his own radio show on KNBR from 1982-85. Kuiper's scorecards from Barry Bonds' historic 756th home run game, Randy Johnson's 300th career victory, Matt Cain's perfect game in 2012 and the scorecard from Gaylord Perry Day (August 13, 2016 - BAL @ SF) are displayed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

And finally Dave Flemming begins his 15th year of broadcasting for the Giants. The 41-year-old will join Jon Miller and Duane Kuiper on the team's KNBR radio broadcasts and is involved in select games on television. In addition to his work with the Giants, he serves as a lead play-by-play voice for ESPN television, working college football, Major League Baseball and basketball, as well as MLB playoffs for ESPN Radio.

He has also served as a primary voice of the Little League World Series on ESPN since 2013. Flemming has previously called Major League Baseball on FOX, and for six years was the play-by-play voice of Stanford football and basketball.

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