Shulman, Hershiser, Valentine Give ESPN's 'Sunday Night Baseball' New Edge

by Milton Kent

Filed under: Sports Business and Media

ESPN introduced its new trio of "Sunday Night Baseball" television announcers Wednesday as a high-tech panel for a new generation of baseball consumers, a group better able to respond to the insatiable demands of its audience than the Hall of Fame duo that was present at the creation of the series.

When the Sunday night telecasts resume in the spring, viewers accustomed to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan will instead get Dan Shulman, Orel Hershiser and Bobby Valentine in large measure because the threesome can adapt to what today's baseball viewers want.

The fact that Shulman can do NBA and college basketball games for the Worldwide Leader, and Valentine and Hershiser can work in the studio as well as in the booth, apparently made them better choices for where ESPN is headed than Miller and Morgan, who pretty much were confined to calling games, an ESPN executive said.

 

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