Enberg to Sports Broadcasting Hall of FameCourtesy
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(December 10, 2009) The Padres' new television play-by-play announcer, Dick Enberg, will be inducted next week into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, a team-issued news release announced on Wednesday. The third-annual celebration will take place Tuesday at the New York Hilton and will be hosted by CBS Sports lead play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz.
Enberg will be inducted among a group of eight other revolutionary sports broadcasters, including Deane Beman, Garrett Brown, Barry Frank, Chuck Howard, Keith Jackson, Steve Laxton and John Porter. Enberg joins other notable broadcasters, like Howard Cosell and Vin Scully and producers Roone Arledge, Don Ohlmeyer and Chet Forte. "This honor is a striking reminder of my privileged life as a sportscaster," Enberg said in a statement. "To have brushed shoulders with decades of greatness in our profession leaves me both honored and humbled. And to just think, the only reason I even walked into that first small radio station in 1955 was to apply for the custodial job." That fateful walk led to 42 seasons covering the NFL, plus 10 Super Bowls, nine Rose Bowls, six Orange Bowls, four Olympics, six Australian Opens, 23 French Opens, 26 Wimbledons, 10 U.S. Open tennis championships, three Ryder Cups, three MLB playoffs, the World Series, three heavyweight boxing championships, 14 NCAA men's basketball championships, the NBA playoffs and the NBA All-Star Game. Enberg is a 14-time Emmy Award winner, has been named Sportscaster of the Year nine times and is the only person ever to win National Emmy Awards as a sportscaster, writer and producer. In February 1998, he became just the fourth sportscaster to be get his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Padres announced the signing of the 74-year-old Enberg to a multi-year deal at PETCO Park on Thursday. Enberg, who's made his home just north of San Diego in La Jolla the past 26 years, is expected to join the team in Spring Training this February and will call action for the majority of regular-season games on Cox-owned Channel 4 San Diego while continuing his tennis coverage of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. _______________________
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