I know when it's snowing and what the temperature is going to be like before I go outside. I know that I can tell when it's raining outside without opening the shutters. MCCARVER: I don't know whether there are permanent changes in my anatomy. GROSS: Are there any permanent changes in your anatomy from having crouched and caught for so many years? TIM MCCARVER: Thank you very much, Terry - nice being with you. And Terry Gross spoke to him in 1987, when one of them, titled "Baby, I Love It!" (ph), had just been published.
He covered 23 World Series, won two Emmys for his color commentary and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a broadcaster. Over the years working for various networks, he called games for the Phillies, the Cardinals, the New York Mets and Yankees and the San Francisco Giants. He was the catcher of choice for some legendary pitchers, including Bob Gibson in the '60s and Steve Carlton in the '70s, and played on two winning World Series teams.Īfter his retirement as a player in 1980, Tim McCarver shifted the color commentary in the broadcast booth. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox. McCarver joined the major leagues in 1959 and embarked on a career as a catcher that spanned four different decades for as many teams - the St. Tim McCarver, the All-Star pro baseball catcher and broadcaster, died last week of heart failure in Memphis, the city of his birth. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, in for Terry Gross.
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