1999 New York Yankees Broadcasters

BOBBY MURCER
"Murcer began as a Yankees announcer after he retired from the game in 1983, serving as color analyst for WABC-Radio from 1983-85. After serving a season as Assistant General Manager for the Yankees, he returned to the booth as color analyst for Yankees games on Sportschannel New York. In 1989, the first year of Yankees games on MSG, Murcer served as color commentator alongside Tommy Hutton. In 1990, he joined the WPIX broadcast team and served in that capacity through the end of the 1998 season.
Over a 17-year career, he played in 1,908 games, hitting .277 with 252 home runs and 1,043 RBI. He joined Lou Gehrig as the only Yankees to hit home runs in four consecutive at-bats [in one day].
Murcer resides in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the town he grew up in with his wife Kay. They have a daughter, Tori, and a son, Todd."

-1999 New York Yankees Information & Record Guide


TIM MCCARVER
"McCarver begins his groundbreaking season in the Yankees broadcast booth after spending the last 16 seasons announcing Mets games. He will continue in his role as lead analyst for the FOX Saturday Baseball Game of the Week, a position he has held since joining FOX Sports in April 1996.
He is the only network television baseball analyst to broadcast the last eight regular seasons and postseasons, including 10 out of the last 12 World Series. He has also received 10 Emmy Award nominations during his 14 seasons as a network analyst for ABC, CBS and FOX, and was an anchor for both the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics.
He starred behind the plate for 21 major league seasons. Tim began his career with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959 and is one of seven modern-day players to play in four decades. He participated in two All-Star Games (1966-67), three League Championship Series (1976-78), was a member of two World Championship teams in St. Louis (1964, 1967) and was the hottest hitter in the 1964 World Series against the Yankees when he led all regulars with a .478 batting average.
Tim and his wife Anne have two daughters, Kathy and Kelly."

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JIM KAAT (MSG Television)
"In his playing days, Kaat won 283 games in his 25-year playing career, posting a 3.45 ERA, and earned a record 16 Gold Gloves from 1962-77, a feat matched only by Brooks Robinson. His 898 appearances, covering four decades, places him 11th all-time.
He has worked nationally as a broadcaster for ESPN, CBS-TV, The Baseball Network and NBC Sports. Prior to joining MSG in 1995, Kaat spent one year as chief analyst on ESPN's Baseball Tonight and was the primary analyst for CBS Sports baseball coverage from 1990-93. He also covered Yankee baseball for WPIX-TV in 1986, the Atlanta Braves on TBS in 1987 and the Minnesota Twins on WCCO from 1988-93.
Kaat lives with his wife MaryAnn in Stuart, Florida and has four children, Jim Jr., Jill, Stacey and Drew."

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KEN SINGLETON (MSG Television)
"Singleton begins his third season behind the microphone for MSG calling Yankee games. He joined MSG in 1997 from The Sports Network, where he served as an analyst for the Montreal Expos from 1985-96. Prior to that, he also called play-by-play for six years on the Expos' flagship radio network, CIQC. He worked as the lead analyst for FOX Sports Saturday afternoon broadcasts in 1996.
In a 15-year career, primarily with the Baltimore Orioles, Singleton played in 2,082 games and batted .282 with 246 home runs and 1,065 RBI. In 1977 he set Oriole records by hitting .328 and accumulating a .438 on-base percentage.
Born in Manhattan and raised in Mount Vernon, New York, he played baseball in the Bronx Federation League at Macombs Dam Park, only feet from Yankee Stadium. Singleton lives in Sparks, Maryland with his wife Suzanne. They have four children."

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LEON SCHWEIR and BILL WEBB (MSG Television)
"Leon Schweir is in his 11th season producing Yankees games on MSG Network and Bill Webb is in his eighth year as director of Yankees telecasts for MSG."

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ARMANDO TALAVERA, BETO VILLA and ROBERTO CLEMENTE, JR. (MSG Spanish)
"In August of 1996, MSG Network, in conjunction with the New York Yankees and Cablevision Systems of New York City, made all Yankees games on MSG available with Spanish audio. This service, called Secondary Audio Programming (SAP), made the Yankees the first franchise in New York sports history to offer such a service. This season, Beto Villa, Roberto Clemente, Jr. and Armando Talavera will once again call the action for Los Yankees En Espanol."

-1999 New York Yankees Information & Record Guide