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Local announcers used to join World Series broadcasts. Fox should revive the tradition

This post was prompted by a comment left in my article about the Ken Holtzman trade providing dividends years later. I included this video of Holtzman hitting a home run for the Athletics in the 1974 World Series:

Announcers on Holtzman HR

Sounds like Kurt Gowdy, Tony Kubek and a 3rd voice I can’t ID.

The third voice is Monte Moore, who was the Athletics’ TV play-by-play announcer in those days.

From the 1950s through 1975, NBC, the rightsholder for the World Series, put announcers for the participating teams in their broadcast booth.