Courtesy USA Today

(January 28, 2011) In ESPN announcer shuffles to be formally announced Friday, Sean McDonough returns to national Major League Baseball TV games. For young fans who don't recognize him: He used to be the youngest announcer to call a World Series.

The moves were set in motion by ESPN dropping Jon Miller and Joe Morgan from its Sunday night games. McDonough will call play-by-play on ESPN's Monday night games, replacing Dan Shulman— who moves to Sundays and joins Orel Hershiser and Bobby Valentine. Mondays, McDonough will work with returning analyst Aaron Boone and Rick Sutcliffe, who's moving from Wednesday night games. Nomar Garciaparra will replace Sutcliffe.

On CBS in 1992, McDonough, then 30, became the youngest national announcer on a Series — a record since broken in 1996 by Fox's Joe Buck, then 27. After two seasons on CBS before it lost baseball, McDonough continued as the Boston Red Sox's announcer until 2004 and has since called college football, baseball and basketball for ESPN.

"It's not that (I) look back as having a major career highlight at 30, but that I was lucky," he says. "Careers can be long and winding paths. Like they say, enjoy the journey."

Too true, Young Grasshopper.

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