He also announced the Soccer Game of the Week for nationally syndicated TVS from 1977–1978. From 1974–1976, Miller did play-by-play for the Washington Diplomats of the NASL. Jon Miller's first network exposure came in 1976, when he was selected by CBS-TV to broadcast the NASL Championship Game. He also spent the early part of his career announcing San Francisco Dons and Pacific Tigers men's college basketball (1976–1980), the Golden State Warriors (part-time, 1979–1982) and Washington Bullets (part-time, 1984–1985) of the NBA, and the original San Jose Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League. įor a brief period in the 1970s, Miller broadcast for the California Golden Seals of the National Hockey League. Miller was dismissed by the Athletics following the 1974 season. Miller submitted one of these tapes to broadcaster Monte Moore, who helped Miller get his first baseball play-by play job in 1974, calling that year's World Series champion Oakland Athletics. During this period, he would sit in the press box at Candlestick Park and record play-by-play of an entire game on his tape recorder. At age 20, Miller joined KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa to work as their sports director. His first baseball broadcasts were from CSM games. He began his broadcasting career at the college's FM radio station ( KCSM-FM) and UHF/PBS TV station ( KCSM-TV), which reached much of the Bay Area. Career Early broadcasting work Īfter graduating from Hayward High School in 1969, Miller took broadcasting classes at the College of San Mateo. As a teenager, Miller played Strat-O-Matic and recorded his own play-by-play into a tape recorder, adding his own crowd noise, vendors, and commercials. He attended his first baseball game in 1962, a 19–8 Giants' victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Candlestick Park. Jon Miller was born on Hamilton Air Force Base in Novato, California, and grew up in Hayward, listening to Giants announcers Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons on the radio. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Since 1997, he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. While there is always that possibility, the fact that he might seem insubordinate for failing to stop his social media behavior after several incidents with ESPN, it seems Curt Schilling may have been sent to the showers for the last time in the broadcast world.Jon Miller (born October 11, 1951) is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. The question now is whether Schilling will be hired by one of the other networks. He can’t possibly play the victim here as he’s been given every opportunity to stand up for what he believes in but not in the public fashion that breaks with ESPN’s social media code. Schilling had the ability to offer great insight into baseball, as well as promote special needs through his life as a parent of a child with Asperger’s Syndrome. With ESPN being owned by Walt Disney, who proclaims that they have a respectful workplace, “ a safe, inclusive, respectful, and fun workplace” that is essential to their business, having Schilling so brazenly and harshly on more than one occasion, promote aspects of his conservative beliefs in inflammatory ways on social media made a case where it was simply a matter of time before he would be let go. Schilling had been given numerous chances to simply stick to baseball, and from time-to-time talk about his family. All this was after ESPN baseball analyst Keith Law was suspended from Twitter for defending evolution in what was then an epic Twitter war with Schilling.

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