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MLB Network will look back at some of the signature baseball calls from Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Costas in a new The Sounds of Baseball episode debuting Thursday, February 8th at 8 p.m. Et.

Cohosted by MLB Network’s Tom Verducci and Matt Vasgersian, the program will reflect on Costas’ run covering the game, from iconic postseason moments to memorable regular season games.

Awarded the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018, Costas has been on the national baseball stage for more than 40 years. For the 2024 season, Costas is once again set to be the play-by-play voice for several MLB Network Showcase telecasts, a role he started when MLB Network launched 15 years ago in 2009.

“Bob Costas’ name and voice are synonymous with baseball. If you love the game, you will love this special. It is more than an appreciation of the...

Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher whose cerebral approach behind the plate over four decades led to a Hall of Fame career as a baseball broadcaster, has died. He was 81.

McCarver died Thursday, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced. The cause of death was heart failure.

McCarver broke into the major leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959 at age 17 and took his final swings for the 1980 World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies. Blessed with a good eye and a disciplined approach in the batter’s box, he compiled a .271 batting average over 21 seasons and pushed the Cardinals to titles in 1964 and ’67.

The Memphis native, who also played for the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox, developed a strong rapport with Hall of Fame pitchers Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton, earning two All-Star appearances and a spot in the Cardinals Hall of Fame.

In 2012, McCarver received the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting,...

There’s a point in Season 2 of the IFC series “Brockmire” when the title character comes to the realization that people like him best when he’s drunk. For anyone who watched the first eight episodes of the show last summer, that was a belief that seemed to be held by the show’s creative team as well. So it’s equal parts surprising and satisfying to see so many assumptions that the show made in its initial run get re-examined, now that the show about a rehabilitating baseball announcer has returned. From the way it handles addiction to how it utilizes the outsized personality at its core, these new episodes are a major improvement in nearly every single way.

With Hank Azaria in the role of Jim Brockmire, a substance-adoring, golden-voiced pinnacle of play-by-play debauchery, this show has a Swiss Army knife at its disposal. Azaria has always served...

Did you know ... Mlb legend Kenny Lofton Writes R&B Music in his spare time ... and wrote one of the songs on Ruben Studdard's biggest album?!!It's true ... so says the Velvet Teddybear himself ... who told TMZ Sports the former Cleveland Indians superstar (and likely future Hall of Famer) did some serious writing work on a song called, "What If" from his 2003 album "Soulful."Fyi -- Soulful was a smash hit for Studdard ... hitting #1 on the U.

For baseball fans, The Official Major League Baseball World Series Film Collection, out on Nov. 10, is the Holy Grail, the mother lode, a grand slam of a DVD collection. Remove the wrapping, tilt the package cover, and out comes a monster of a book that starts with a forward by Bob Costas and is followed by overviews of World Series from 1903 to 2008. The pages grow thicker starting with 1947, as the first of 20 DVDs are fitted into the set. And what's on those DVDs? Fifty-plus hours of footage capturing memorable moments from the annual fall classic. It's all there: Willie Mays' legendary grab called "The Catch," Jackie Robinson swiping home in 1955, Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956, the Miracle Mets of 1969, Reggie Jackson emerging as Mr. October in 1977, the Mets capitalizing on Bill Buckner's infamous error in 1986, Kirk Gibson playing the limping hero in 1988, the Yankees winning it all in 1996, 1998, 1999 and in the 2000 Subway Series,...

New York -- The Mlb Network will bow on New Year's Day with the original telecast -- commercials and all -- of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

The game, which was televised on NBC, was thought to have been lost to history. But several years ago, a collector discovered a kinescope version of the game that begins in the second inning and continues throughout the end.

It will be the first time the contest has been televised since the October day 52 years ago.

Yankees' announcer Mel Allen and Dodgers' announcer Vin Scully do the play-by-play. Larsen is the only pitcher ever to throw a perfect game.

The Mlb channel will sign on at 6 p.m. Et with a live "Hot Stove" studio show that will introduce the network and update what's happened in baseball since the World Series. The Yankees-Dodgers game begins at 7 p.m.

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