Dick Stockton

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Dick Stockton (born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American sportscaster. He is currently employed by FOX Sports and Turner Sports as a football, baseball, and basketball play-by-play man.

[edit] Early life and career

Stockton was educated at Syracuse University, majoring in political science. In 1965, he began his sportscasting career at local radio and television stations in Philadelphia; a decade later, he became the lead play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox' TV broadcasts. Stockton was part of the broadcast crew for NBC Sports' coverage of the 1975 World Series and called Carlton Fisk's famous, game-winning home run in Game 6 of that series; "there it goes a long drive, If it stays fair ... Home run!" Stockton was also the play by play announcer for HBO's coverage of PBA Bowling. ^[1]

[edit] CBS Sports

In 1978, Stockton joined CBS Sports, and from then until 1994 covered a variety of sports for that network including the National Football League, the National Basketball Association (where Stockton was the lead play-by-play man from 1981-1990), Major League Baseball, the Pan American Games, the 1992 Winter Olympic Games and the 1994 Winter Olympic Games (He called the Speed Skating events, including the triumphant win of Dan Jansen's 1000 meter gold medal). From 1993 to 1995, he also called local TV broadcasts of the Oakland Athletics.

[edit] FOX Sports

Stockton left CBS in 1994 for Fox Sports, which continues to employ him on NFL and occasional Major League Baseball telecasts. After several years working with former Dallas Cowboy Daryl Johnston up to 2006, this is his first year working with former Cowboy, Colt, and Eagle offensive lineman Brian Baldinger. Stockton worked with former UCLA head coach Terry Donahue for week 14 of 2007. Before 2007, he would work along with Troy Aikman when Joe Buck was working the World Series. For Major League Baseball on FOX, he has worked with Eric Karros, Joe Girardi, Mark Grace and Tim McCarver.

[edit] TNT/TBS

Since 1995, he has also called NBA telecasts for the TNT cable network, and in 2004 began doing part-time local television work for the San Antonio Spurs.

In 2007, Stockton was named as one of the announcers for the TBS network's postseason baseball coverage. He was retained for 2008 as a voice for TBS' Sunday afternoon national coverage.

[edit] NFL Network

Stockton commentated on Super Bowl XLII alongside Sterling Sharpe on the international feed, provided by the NFL Network. This is the feed used by the BBC and certain other English-language broadcasters outside North America.

[edit] Personal

Stockton is married to the sportscaster and former sportswriter Lesley Visser. Stockton and Visser met during the 1975 World Series, when Stockton was broadcasting for NBC and Visser was covering the series for the Boston Globe.

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