Dick Enberg

[Tank]

Just finished spending a couple of innings in the booth with victor and Gubi telling stories. What a refreshing walk down memory lane. We were blessed to be able to listen to him and drysdale together for all those years.

best wishes in your retirement years, professor.

[IEAngelsfan]

I thought they both were great together.  They made listening to those awful teams bearable.  

[Homebrewer]

We've been blessed with some really good announcers, but with apologies to all the rest..

Dick Enberg personifies the Angels to me more than any other, and I've been around since they opened the gates. I'm glad he was there with Jackie during the trophy ceremony in 02...(although I cant seem to find a picture of it)

He was/is also one of the best football guys around, and also one of the all time greats for tennis. He could do everything, and did nearly everything. If I had to choose between Scully and Enberg, it wouldn't even be close.

 

 

[Angels#1Fan]

When I was a kid in addition to being an Angel fan I was also a big UCLA basketball fan. They used to rebroadcast all of the UCLA games around 11pm so I made sure I wasn't near a tv or radio so I could watch the rebroadcast without knowing who won. Dick Enberg did those games and he made it thrilling. The guy could call anything ("Oh my") he was a great football announcer also. I'm telling you those Angel broadcasts with Enberg and Drysdale were about as good as it gets especially considering how horrible some of those teams were. Some of you young guys really missed it. Enberg or Scully?? Enberg every time..no contest..Touch em all!

[ten ocho recon scout]

He was before my time, but as an angel fan i of course know who he is, and have liked hearing his old calls.

Listening to him tonight was cool. I havent caught too many games on tv this year because of work but happened to catch his inning tonight by chance. Liked that ted williams story.

[Angelsfirst]

True broadcasting legend. Up there with Scully for sure imo. He's had a great career. Time for him to ride off into the sunset.

[Mark68]

I was weaned on the Enberg/Drysdale broadcasts, they were what really made me a fan. I, too, much prefer Enberg to Scully.

[itsKnoppUitsme]

Don't forget that he was the voice of Mattels Talking Baseball & Talking Football.

The coolest games when I was a kid!

Enberg > Everybody!

[Tank]

as much as i loved him on the angels and rams broadcasts, i may have loved even more the show Sports Challenge, which enberg hosted. for you youngsters, it was a quiz show about sports. there were two teams of former players (usually from the four major sports), and they were asked all kinds of sports questions. sometimes there were video questions and enberg himself often dubbed over the play by play. 

they didn't have slouches on those teams, either. the former yankee team included joltin' joe dimaggio, tommy heinrich, and lefty gomez. my mom got us tickets to a couple of tapings, and for me it was better than going to disneyland. they had a former rams team on for one of the episodes, and elroy hirsch and tank younger were part of the team. during a break in taping i had to go to the can and hirsch was there. i asked him why they called him crazy legs, and he told me it was because he ran like a girl. that was a memorable moment for 11 year old me to experience - talking to a pro football player without a crush of people around. 

i loved watching this show and watched as much as i possibly could. enberg made it that much more exceptional. 

[Angels#1Fan]

Yeah, Sports Challenge was a very good show that always seemed to have legends on the panel. It was must watch tv.

[Angel Oracle]

Enberg was solid doing the old Hughes Network college basketball games in the late 60s-mid 70s, including two Domers wins over UCLA that ended 47 and 88 game winning streaks and the UCLA/Houston game in January 1968 at the Astrodome when they were ranked #1/#2.

Enberg, Al McGuire, and Billy Packer (starting in the 1977-78 season) may have been as good of a college basketball announcing team as there ever was.

[Angels#1Fan]

Those taped delayed games from Pauley on KTLA back in the 60's during UCLA's dynasty years when Lew Alcindor (aka Kareem) and then Walton, and later Wicks, Rowe and Patterson played were great. Enberg was literally phenomenal doing those games. In the eight years that Enberg did those games UCLA won seven national championships!  Oh my!

[Angels#1Fan]

36 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Enberg, Al McGuire, and Billy Packer (starting in the 1977-78 season) may have been as good of a college basketball announcing team as there ever was.

Definitely.

Enberg gets a lot of props for his baseball work but you don't hear much about his basketball announcing. I think he was great.

Enberg and Merlin Olsen were pretty good doing NBC football..

[Angel Oracle]

Enberg's call of the blocked punt, and subsequent Gabriel to Casey TD pass, in the 1967 Rams/Packers December game at the Coliseum was one of the all timers.

After the winning TD pass..."The Rams are jumping up and down like 13 year-olds!"

That same day, the Queen Mary docked in LB.  I got to be on one of the boats that greeted her arrival that day.

[70runner]

Truly golden age of SOCAL sports broadcasting - Enberg, Hearn, Scully, Miller.  Won't be/isn't the same without them. 

 

[Inside Pitch]

Still my favorite announcer ever...    

[kevinb]

13 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Enberg's call of the blocked punt, and subsequent Gabriel to Casey TD pass, in the 1967 Rams/Packers December game at the Coliseum was one of the all timers.

After the winning TD pass..."The Rams are jumping up and down like 13 year-olds!"

That same day, the Queen Mary docked in LB.  I got to be on one of the boats that greeted her arrival that day.

You need your own show somewhere. You have the most random old school sports knowledge. They should bring back win Ben steins money but instead with you and about sports knowledge.