# Who is the best sports announcer?

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**Created:** [December 18, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-best-sports-announcer/956250 "2021-12-18T01:34:11Z")\
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Basketball: No one beats Chick Hearn. He would work a Lakers game then, if playing, fly to Las Vegas to work the UNLV simulcasts.

Back when the SuperSonics played in Seattle, I loved listening to Kevin Calabro’s play-by-play.

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[Hearn’s voice is widely known from numerous TV and movie appearances.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372481/) He has a voice you enjoy listening to.

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> [@ThatCanadianGuy](#):
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> I think people will think the best announcers will be the ones they first listen to.

For me, it was Bob Cole and Howie Meeker (hockey). And that would be a no, for me. I realise I’m in the minority (for those who know them), what, with Bob being a can-do-no-wrong Canadian legend with HM nipping at his heels.

> [@RickJay](#):
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> Dan Shulman is just incredibly good at baseball announcing.

As is the alternate Jays announcer Buck Martinez (Yay! Great to see him back from being sidelined with cancer! Yaaaay!) Tabby (Pat Tabler) is also good - I picked up a lot of the finer points of the game from him.

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