Four Voices, One Swing: Kirk Gibson vs. Dennis Eckersley, 1988 World Series Game 1

There were four separate play-by-play men at the microphone when Kirk Gibson limped up to home plate to battle Dennis Eckersley and keep the Dodgers' hopes alive in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series: Vin Scully on the national television call, Jack Buck on the national radio call, Don Drysdale on the Dodgers' radio call, and Bill King on the Athletics' radio call.
Josh Suchon and Jesse Goldberg-Strassler contrast the directions each broadcaster took to describe what transpired next. (This is Josh's wheelhouse: He wrote the book on the 1988 Dodgers, "Miracle Men.")
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Here's to you, Mel Didier.

[@chrisdelcamp3853]

Favorite of all 4 episodes so far! LOVE that you compiled 4 different views of the same instance.

[@rustykuntz94]

Bill King is a absolute Bay Area legendary broadcaster, all of his classic calls of Oakland Raiders moments

[@steveprestegard5151]

22:06 and after this King turned to his partner and said “we just lost the World Series.”

[@wiedep]

With Scully on TV most were spared Jack Buck, who overplayed this moment as much as he underplayed the end of game 6 1986.
Showing his bias against the Mets, he fanned the flames of the 'pond scum' rhetoric and later was Herzog's mouthpiece about
Howard Johnson's bats - cork(ed)' was a word he used obsessively. Think Ozzie Smith in '85.
Joe Amalfitano giving Gibson the big back slap, 34 years after a Series win in his rookie season ('54) on the way to another ring.