At one point the fledgling cable company was looking to hire a play-by-play and a color guy, and our president at the time, Malcom Prine, asked me to spearhead the guys who were coming in to try out for the play-by-play and color analyst." Harold Arlin became the nation's first baseball broadcaster when he called the play-by-play of the Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Philadelphia Phillies game from Forbes Field on August 5, 1921 for Pittsburgh radio station KDKA. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Wehner recounts his improbable journey to the Pittsburgh Pirates He loved the Bills. I didn't really know what he meant." Starter Mitch Keller is nearing the ace status the club once envisioned for him, and will have two more years of control after this one. I stood in the back of the booth, not knowing what was going on, because I didn't know what he meant. Lange meant that Brown would finally get a chance to call his first big league game. Leyland, who managed the Florida Marlins, signed Wehner after he was released by the Dodgers. Johnny Cueto dropped the ball on the mound; two more playoff appearances followed. WebJohn Paul Wehner (pronounced "Waner") (born June 29, 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former utility player in Major League Baseball and a current broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates. His Pirates are off to a 20-9 start, the best record in the National League, and while Reynolds, wife Blair and their two children are rooted in Tennessee, they can certainly shop around in preparation for Steel City summers: Reynolds last week signed an eight-year, $100 million contract extension, the first nine-figure commitment in club history. Is John Wehner still a pirate broadcaster And teammates with one guy who was one of his biggest fans when McCutchen was the 2013 NL MVP. He also shares the MLB record of 99 consecutive errorless games at third base with Jeff Cirillo and has a World Series ring with the Florida Marlins for the 1997 season. "I tried out for the mascot and ended up coming in second place," Brown recalled. And he put on a cassette tape. Dynamic (and unprecedentedly big, fast and strong) shortstop Oneil Cruz should join Reynolds and Hayes as a lineup fixture, but an ankle fracture will keep him out through June.
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