By John McMullen
Jim Jackson will join the Philadelphia Phillies broadcast team for the upcoming season.
The veteran announcer will be hosting the pre-game and post-game shows, a role handled last year by Scott Franzke, who will be doing play-by-play exclusively this year.
“We are pleased to have a broadcaster of Jim’s caliber in our mix,” said Phillies broadcasting manager Rob Brooks. “He brings a lot of experience with him, and a passion for baseball that not too many people were aware of.”
The 43-year old Jackson has been broadcasting hockey games for 20 years, the last 14 with the Flyers, but this will not be his first baseball experience. The Syracuse graduate did radio play-by-play for the Utica Blue Sox of the New York-Penn League from 1986 to 1993. Jackson also spent the summer of 2005 broadcasting the Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League and was the television voice of the Cal Ripken World Series on OLN in August 2006.
No comments:
Post a Comment