Historical Bookkeeping: 2025, Volume II

One of the less-fun parts of being the historical record is that, with close to 60,000 telecasts and more than 157,000 announcer credits in our five main listings, sometimes it becomes necessary to correct the historical record.

We do this eight times a year for a couple of reasons. The first is regularity: it batches everything together to make sure things don't back up and helps avoid the "did I make that change or not?" problem. The other is a certain level of fairness: when these things happen on schedule, it eliminates the possibility of villainy by sending in one correction at a time to manipulate when one announcer catches or passes another. (That would redefine the level of "petty" necessary to constitute petty crime, but while your editor cannot claim to have laid awake at night thinking about this, it has crossed his mind.)

We settled on the eight-update schedule for a couple of reasons. In terms of frequency, doing this biweekly or monthly was more frequent than practical, and doing it quarterly felt a little bit like opening a dam of minnows. In terms of schedule, some things just fit: the traditional "quarters" at the ends of March and September bookend the MLB season; the end of December lines up with several programs' desires to autofill the current year in a date entry; the cross-quarter days in mid-February and mid-November line up with the ends of the baseball and football playoffs, respectively; the one in mid-May corresponds to the funneling of basketball and hockey playoffs from a firehose down to a stream; and mid-August is jut before football ramps up at the NFL, college and high school levels.

Before we move from the "why" to the "what," here are some ways to send in updates to the announcer listings, which live on the 506 Sports archive:

• The first and probably simplest way is to post on the 506 Sports Discord server, which has thousands of members with various sports broadcasting interests and a few dozen active members in the Archive section.
• There's also the option to contact our editor directly: this site hangs out on Twitter/X, Instagram, and Bluesky.
• You can email us by properly arranging "Tony" and an "@" sign in front of our domain name. Don't include the "blog" prefix if you do this, or we won't get it.

Having established the ground rules, here are the changes we made to various historical listings. These changes were made on April 8, 2025, and the current listings reflect games played through Sunday, April 6.

Professional football (mostly the NFL, but also including the AFL and AAFC)

1. Oct. 10, 1964: Deleted SNI telecast of Steelers-Browns with Ken Coleman and Warren Lahr; added Coleman to WIIC telecast (with Joe Tucker and Johnny Sauer) which also aired on WHP, WLYH and WSTV, per research of longtime archivist Tim Brulia.
2. Oct. 11, 1964: Added St. Louis network to Giants-Cowboys, per Brulia.

Major League Baseball

1. July 23, 1969: Added field reporter Charlie Jones to All-Star Game per video submitted by longtime archivist Jeff Haggar.
2. July 11, 1978, and July 13, 1982: Added field reporter Bob Uecker to All-Star Games per video submitted by Haggar.
3. July 30, 1993: Replaced Rangers-Athletics analyst Joe Morgan with Jerry Reuss per video submitted by Discord user wd3.
4. Aug. 2, 1993: Replaced White Sox-Mariners crew of Paul Olden and unknown analyst with Steve Physioc and Reuss. Video submitted by Discord user wd3.
5. July 12, 1994: Added field reporter Greg Gumbel to All-Star game per video submitted by Discord user Jake.
6. Sept. 22, 1995: Removed rained-out Tigers-Yankees game called by Bobby Murcer and Lary Sorensen. (Game had been removed from tabulation but not website listing.)
7. Sept. 9, 1998: Cardinals-Reds game was played in Cincinnati, not St. Louis.
8. June 30, 1999: Cardinals-Astros game was played in Houston, not St. Louis.
9. Oct. 16, 1999: Changed start time of Braves-Mets from 8:00 to 7:30.
10. April 22, 2007: Changed start time of Red Sox-Yankees from 4:00 to 8:00.
11. May 9, 2007: Changed start time of Rangers-Yankees from 8:00 to 7:00.
12. July 4, 2007: Changed start time of Indians-Tigers from 8:00 to 7:00.
13. Sept. 9, 2018: Removed rained-out Cubs-Nationals game called by Ernie Johnson and Ron Darling. (Game had been removed from tabulation but not website listing.)

National Basketball Association

1. March 7, 1976: Replaced Knicks-Bullets analyst Mendy Rudolph with Jerry West per 3/8/76 Boston Globe; replaced PBP Brent Musburger with Don Criqui per 3/20/76 High Point Enterprise.
2. Feb. 4, 2000: Kings-Pacers game was played in Indianapolis, not Sacramento.

National Hockey League (U.S. telecasts)

1. Feb. 27, 1985: Added Sabres-Blues telecast on USA with Dan Kelly, Gary Green, Al Trautwig. Video submitted by Discord user nbafan890.

National Hockey League (Canadian telecasts)

1. April 19, 1975: Changed Flyers-Maple Leafs analyst from Bob Goldham to Brian McFarlane per video submitted by Brulia.
2. March 22, 1980: Flipped analyst Gary Dornhoefer to Sabres-Maple Leafs and Gerry Pinder to Whalers-Canadiens; replaced PBP Bob Cole with Bill Hewitt and deleted analyst McFarlane from Sabres-Maple Leafs. Video was submitted by Discord user Seth W.
3. April 16, 1982: On the Nordiques-Bruins telecast, moved Dick Irvin from colour to host, replaced him with Don Cherry, added McFarlane as a second host, and deleted original host Dave Hodge. Video was submitted by Discord user Seth W.
4. March 4, 1988: Added Rangers-Sabres telecast on CanWest/Global with Kelly, Mickey Redmond and Hodge. Video was submitted by Discord user nbafan890.
5. May 13, 2009: Replaced Chris Cuthbert and Ray Ferraro with Cole and Greg Millen on Penguins-Capitals based on video.
6. Jan. 14, 2017: Corrected name of Jets-Panthers PBP from Greg Randorf to Dave Randorf. (Greg Millen was the analyst; name cross-pollination appears to have occurred.)

We'll be back with more announcer milestones after these messages and a word from your local station.