Major League Baseball on CBS

Major League Baseball on CBS
Format	Sports
Created by	CBS Sports
Starring	Sean McDonough Jack Buck Tim McCarver Jim Kaat Dick Stockton Greg Gumbel Pat O'Brien Jim Gray Andrea Joyce Lesley Visser
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	118 regular season broadcasts (approximate number)
Production
Running time	180 minutes or until game ends
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	April 14, 1990 – October 23, 1993
Chronology
Related shows	Major League Baseball Game of the Week
External links
Website

Major League Baseball on CBS is the name of the former TV show that televised Major League Baseball games on the American television network CBS (legally known as the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1928 to 1974). Produced by CBS Sports, there have been several variations of the program dating back to the 1950s. The most notable version existed from 1990 to 1993.

August 11, 1951

On August 11, 1951, WCBS-TV in New York (CBS' flagship station) broadcast the first baseball game on color television. It was the Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Boston Braves from Ebbets Field. The Braves beat the Dodgers 8–1.

See also: Baseball broadcasting firsts

Original Major League Baseball on CBS program

1955–1958

By 1955, Dizzy Dean^[1] and the Game of the Week would move from ABC to CBS^[2] (the rights were actually set up through the Falstaff Brewing Corporation^[3]). "CBS' stakes were higher" said Buddy Blattner, who left Mutual to rejoin Dean. Ron Powers wrote about the reteaming of Dean and Blattner "They wanted someone who'd known Diz, could bring him out." Bill McColgan and Bob Finnegan, previously backup game announcers for ABC, performed the same role on CBS in 1956-57; in 1958 Finnegan began working with a variety of color men including Frank Reynolds, a reporter for Chicago CBS affiliate WBBM-TV (and future ABC News anchor).

In 1957, CBS added a Sunday Game of the Week.^[4][5][6] ABC's Edgar Scherick said "In '53, no one wanted us. Now teams begged for "Game"'s cash." That year, the NFL began a $14.1 million revenue-sharing pact. By 1965, Major League Baseball ended the big-city blackout, got $6.5 million for exclusivity, and split the pot.

With CBS now carrying the Game of the Week,^[7] outlets in Phoenix, Little Rock, and Cedar Rapids were finally receiving the Game of the Week. Bud Blattner said "America had never had TV network ball. Now you're getting two games a week [four, counting NBC, by 1959]."

In 1958, Dizzy Dean ruffled the feathers of CBS Sports head Bill MacPhail when he said "I don't know how we come off callin' this the 'Game of the Week'. There's a much better game - Dodgers-Giants - over on NBC." Dean also once refused a Falstaff ad because the date was Mother's Day. When United Airlines backed CBS' Game of the Week telecasts, Dean, who hated to fly said "If you have to, pod-nuh, Eastern is much the best."

1959–1963

Jack Whitaker and Frankie Frisch did the backup games from 1959 to 1961. They usually did games that took place in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., or Baltimore. Whitaker once said in three years, he would only broadcast three innings because CBS wouldn't switch away from Dizzy Dean. However, he said that he learned a lot of baseball just sitting next to Frisch. CBS had other backup crews for games featuring the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati Reds. In these cases, Bob Finnegan would handle the play-by-play duties with various analysts depending on the city. CBS did not have Game of the Week rights from any other ballparks in those years.

Pee Wee Reese replaced Blattner as Dean's partner in 1960.^[8] That same year the network featured Jerry Coleman as a pregame interviewer.

1964–1966

By 1964,^[9] CBS' Dean and Reese called games from Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. New York got $550,000 of CBS' $895,000. Six clubs that exclusively played nationally televised games on NBC got $1.2 million. The theme music from this era was a Dixieland styled rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."

In 1966, the New York Yankees, who in the year prior played 21 Games of the Week for CBS (who had actually just purchased the Yankees^[10]), joined NBC's television package. The new package under NBC called for 28 games compared to 1960's three-network 123.

Announcers

• Bud Blattner (1955–1959)
• Jerry Coleman (1960) - Coleman hosted the pregame show for CBS' Game of the Week broadcasts in 1960. A rather embarrassing incident for Coleman occurred when he was interviewing Cookie Lavagetto when the "Star-Spangled Banner" started. Coleman later said, "Believe me, when the Anthem starts, I stop, whether I'm taping, talking, or eating a banana."
• Dizzy Dean (1955–1964; 1965 (Yankee Baseball))
• Bob Finnegan (1955–1961)
• Frankie Frisch (1959–1961)
• George Kell^[11] (1958) - Kell hosted the pregame show for CBS' Game of the Week broadcasts in 1958. One time, Kell hoped to ask guest Casey Stengel about the Yankees' batting order. When asked about how it went, Kell said, "Fine. But in our 15 minues, Casey didn't get past the leadoff batter."
• Bill McColgan (1955–1957)
• Pee Wee Reese (1960–1964; 1965 (Yankee Baseball))
• Jack Whitaker (1959–1961)

1990–1993 version

See also: Major League Baseball on NBC and Major League Baseball on ABC

On December 14, 1988,^[12] CBS (under the guidance of Commissioner Peter Ueberroth,^[13] Major League Baseball's broadcast director Bryan Burns,^[14] CBS Inc. CEO Laurence Tisch as well as CBS Sports executives Neal Pilson and Eddie Einhorn) paid approximately $1.8 billion^[14] for exclusive over-the-air television rights for over four years (beginning in 1990^[15]). CBS paid about $265 million each year for the World Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the Saturday Game of the Week. It was one of the largest agreements (to date) between the sport of baseball and the business of broadcasting.

The deal with CBS was also intended to pay each team (26 in 1990 and then, 28 by 1993) $10 million a year. They also would be paying an estimated $7.1 million per game or $790,000 per inning, and $132,000 per out.

A separate deal with cable TV would bring each team an additional $4 million. Each team could also cut its own deal with local TV. For example, the New York Yankees signed with a cable network (MSG) that would pay the team $41 million annually for 12 years. Radio broadcast rights can bring in additional money. Reportedly, after the huge TV contracts with CBS and ESPN were signed, ballclubs spent their excess millions on free agents.

Before^[16] the previous television contract (1984–1989) with Major League Baseball was signed, CBS was at one point, interested in a pact which would have called for three interleague games every Thursday night (only). The proposed deal with CBS involved the American League East teams playing the National League East and the American League West playing the National League West respectively.

Trademarks

A trademark of CBS' baseball coverage was its majestic, uplifting, and harmonious theme music^[17] (which was composed by Bob Christianson and Tony Smythe). Besides the prologues (with the play-by-play man previewing the upcoming match up) for the Saturday Game of the Week, the music was usually set to the opening graphic of an opaque rendition of the CBS Eye entering a big, waving red, white, and blue bunting and then a smaller, unfolding red, white, and blue bunting (over a white diamond) and floating blue banner (which usually featured an indicating year like "1991 World Series" for instance) complete with dark red Old English text. Pat O'Brien anchored the World Series and All-Star Game telecasts while usually delivering the prologue (normally set against the live scenery over the theme music). Though O'Brien would be joined by his co-host Andrea Joyce during the 1993 World Series and 1993 MLB All-Star Game.

A recurring theme during CBS' coverage of the postseason was the usage of Michael Kamen's "Overture" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. From start to finish, an audio montage of baseball's most memorable moments played on top, followed by a video and music only (no narration) recap of both League Championship Series and the World Series from 1991 to 1993. The "Training" cue from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was played against an all slow-motion montage of the entire series. As Tim McCarver recapped the first six games of the 1991 World Series before Game 7, CBS used Hans Zimmer's "Fighting 17th" from the movie Backdraft for the soundtrack. During the 1993 All-Star Game and postseason, highlights of past All-Star Games and postseason moments were scored using the John Williams composed theme from the movie Jurassic Park. Also during the commercial breaks of the 1993 All-Star Game, CBS provided a snippet of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer". During the prologue for Game 1 of the 1993 World Series, CBS used Hans Zimmer's "The Walk Home" from the movie Cool Runnings. During the closing credits for Game 6 of the 1993 World Series (CBS' final Major League Baseball telecast to date), they used Bob Seger's "The Famous Final Scene" followed by Billy Joel's "Famous Last Words"^[18].

CBS' slogan for their regular season, Game of the Week broadcasts was "Baseball's biggest moments are on CBS!"^[19] Meanwhile, the pregame shows were called Baseball with the corresponding season tagged at the end such as Baseball '90, Baseball '91 and so forth.

Year-by-year

CBS for the most part, bypassed the division and pennant races. Instead, their scheduled games focused on games featuring major-market teams, regardless of their record.

1990

Major League Baseball's four-season tenure with CBS (1990–1993) was marred by turmoil and shortcomings throughout.^[20] The original plan was for Brent Musburger to be the primary play-by-play announcer for CBS' baseball telecasts (thus, having the tasks of calling the All-Star Game, National League Championship Series, and World Series), with veteran broadcaster and lead CBS Radio baseball voice Jack Buck to serve as the secondary announcer^[21] (which would involve calling a second weekly game and the American League Championship Series). Former ABC color man Tim McCarver^[22] was hired by CBS to be Musburger's partner while NBC's Jim Kaat^[23] was hired to be Buck's. However, weeks before CBS was to debut its MLB coverage, on April 1, 1990, Musburger was fired by the network over what CBS perceived to be a power grab by Musburger in taking on the assignment (at the time, Musburger was CBS' lead college basketball announcer, host of The NFL Today, and was the main studio host for the NBA and had felt that he had been given too many broadcasting assignments by the network).

With Musburger's firing, Buck was moved up to the primary announce team alongside McCarver. His position as backup announcer alongside Kaat was taken by CBS' lead NBA announcer, Dick Stockton. Studio host Greg Gumbel took over for Stockton as the number two play-by-play man in 1993. Gumbel was in return, replaced by Andrea Joyce, who served as a field reporter for the first three seasons of CBS' coverage. On the teaming of Buck and McCarver, Broadcasting magazine wrote "The network has exclusivity, much rides on them."

Joining the team of Buck and McCarver was Lesley Visser (who was, incidentally, married to the aforementioned Dick Stockton), who became the first female MLB beat writer while she worked for the Boston Globe, when she covered the Boston Red Sox. During the CBS' coverage the 1990 World Series, Visser became the first woman to cover the World Series.

Meanwhile, Jim Kaat earned rave reviews for his role as CBS' backup analyst (which flashed a considerable "good-guy air"). Ron Bergman wrote of Kaat's performance during the 1990 ALCS "This was a night for pitchers to excel. Dave Stewart. Roger Clemens. Jim Kaat [on commentary]." Despite the rave reviews, Jim Kaat admitted that he was frustrated. He felt that at that point and time, the idea of figuring out what to talk about during a three-hour broadcast had become intimidating. As a result, Kaat would bring notes into the booth, but in the process, found himself providing too much detail. He ultimately confided in his broadcasting partner, Dick Stockton, that he wanted to work without notes. So Stockton hooked Kaat up with then-lead NFL on CBS color man, John Madden for a telephone seminar. Madden said if he brought notes into the booth he felt compelled to use them and would "force" something into a telecast. On his seminar with John Madden, Jim Kaat said "Then John told me if he did his homework it would be stored in his memory bank. And if it is important it will come out. If it doesn't, it probably wasn't that important."

A mildly notorious moment came during CBS' coverage of the 1990 All-Star Game from Wrigley Field in Chicago. In a game that was marred by rain delays for a combined 85 minutes (including a 68 minute monsoon during the 7th inning), CBS annoyed many diehard fans by airing the William Shatner hosted reality series Rescue 911^[24] during the delay.

CBS' initially didn't want to start their 1990 coverage until after the network had aired that year's NBA Finals (which was the last time CBS aired the Finals before the NBA's move to NBC). Therefore, only 12 regular season telecasts were scheduled^[12] The broadcasts would've been each Saturday from June 16 through August 25 and a special Sunday telecast on the weekend of August 11–12 (the New York Yankees against the Oakland Athletics in Oakland on both days). Ultimately, four more telecasts were added - two in April and two on the last two Saturdays of the season.

The 1990 postseason started on a Thursday, while World Series started on a Tuesday due to the brief lockout. Major League Baseball and CBS went with some rather unconventional scheduling during the LCS round, with two consecutive scheduled off-days^[25] in the NLCS after Game 2.

Schedule

Date	Teams	Announcers
April 14, 1990	Chicago Cubs @ Pittsburgh[26] Los Angeles @ Houston[27][28][29]	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
April 21, 1990	Montreal @ New York Mets California @ Minnesota	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
June 16, 1990[30]	Boston @ Baltimore[31] San Diego @ Los Angeles	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
June 23, 1990	St. Louis @ Chicago Cubs[32] San Francisco @ Houston[33]	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
June 30, 1990	Oakland @ Toronto
July 7, 1990	Chicago Cubs @ San Francisco Minnesota @ New York Yankees
July 10, 1990	All-Star Game (Wrigley Field, Chicago)	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver
July 14, 1990	Kansas City @ Boston San Diego @ Pittsburgh
July 21, 1990	San Francisco @ Chicago Cubs Philadelphia @ Cincinnati
July 28, 1990	St. Louis @ New York Mets Baltimore @ Kansas City
August 4, 1990	Los Angeles @ San Francisco[34] New York Mets @ St. Louis[35]
August 11, 1990	New York Yankees @ Oakland Texas @ Chicago White Sox[36]
August 12, 1990	New York Yankees @ Oakland[37]
August 18, 1990	California @ Boston Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati	Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat Jack Buck and Tim McCarver
August 25, 1990	New York Mets @ Los Angeles[38] Boston @ Toronto	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
September 22, 1990	St. Louis @ Pittsburgh[39] Boston Red Sox @ New York Yankees[40][41]	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
September 29, 1990	Boston Red Sox @ Toronto Blue Jays[42]	Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat

1991

After sustaining huge losses (CBS lost $12 million to $15 million on each of the League Championship Series and World Series games not played, for a total of $36 million to $45 million) from 1990's abbreviated postseason (which ended with the Cincinnati Reds shockingly sweeping the defending World Champion Oakland Athletics in the World Series), CBS made several notable adjustments for 1991. Regular season telecasts had been reduced to a meager handful. In return, pregame shows during the League Championship Series were entirely eliminated, to minimize the ratings damage. The 1991 season was perhaps most noteworthy for CBS having the opportunity of covering of the now legendary World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Earlier in the postseason, CBS' coverage of the ALCS meant that they could not carry the live testimony of Clarence Thomas, whose confirmation to the United States Supreme Court was put into question because of charges of sexual harassment from former staffer Anita Hill. Meanwhile, ABC, NBC, CNN and PBS all carried the testimony.

As CBS' baseball coverage^{[43][44][45][46]} progressed, they dropped the 8:00 p.m. pregame coverage^[47] (in favor of sitcoms such as Evening Shade), before finally starting their coverage at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The first pitch would generally arrive at approximately 8:45 p.m. Perhaps as a result, Joe Carter's World Series clinching home run off Mitch Williams in 1993, occurred at 12:00 a.m. on the East Coast.

Schedule

Date	Teams	Announcers
April 20, 1991	New York Mets @ Montreal Detroit @ Chicago White Sox
April 27, 1991	Chicago Cubs @ Cincinnati Seattle @ Minnesota
May 5, 1991	Boston @ Chicago White Sox Cleveland @ Oakland
May 18, 1991	New York Mets @ Los Angeles
May 25, 1991	Los Angeles @ Cincinnati Cleveland @ Milwaukee
June 15, 1991	Chicago Cubs @ San Diego
June 22, 1991	Pittsburgh @ Los Angeles
June 29, 1991	St. Louis @ Chicago Cubs Boston @ Baltimore
July 9, 1991	All-Star Game (SkyDome, Toronto)	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver
July 14, 1991	Baltimore @ Oakland
July 20, 1991	Los Angeles @ New York Mets Detroit @ Kansas City	Jack Buck and Tim McCarver Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat
August 3, 1991	Toronto @ Boston Pittsburgh @ St. Louis
August 24, 1991	Cincinnati @ New York Mets Minnesota @ Baltimore
September 14, 1991	Chicago White Sox @ California (dropped) Los Angeles @ Atlanta Oakland @ Toronto
September 21, 1991	San Francisco @ San Diego New York Yankees @ Boston
September 28, 1991
October 5, 1991	Houston @ Atlanta Los Angeles @ San Francisco	Dick Stockton and Jim Kaat Jack Buck and Tim McCarver

Sean McDonough replaces Jack Buck

After two years of calling baseball telecasts for CBS, Jack Buck was dismissed in December 1991. According to the radio veteran Buck, he had a hard time adjusting to the demands of a more constricting television production. CBS felt that Buck should've done more to make himself appear to be a set-up man for lead analyst Tim McCarver.^[48] Jack Buck's son Joe tried to rationalize his father's on-air problems by saying "My dad was brought up in the golden age of radio, I think he had his hands tied somewhat, being accustomed to the freedom of radio.^[49] I'm more used to acquiescing to what the producer wants to do, what the director wants to do."

Buck himself sized up CBS' handling of the announcers by saying "CBS never got that baseball play-by-play draws word-pictures. All they knew was that football stars analysts. So they said, 'Let [analyst Tim] McCarver run the show.' In television, all they want you to do is shut up. I'm not very good at shutting up." Buck though, would add that although he knew Tim McCarver well, they never developed a good relationship with each other on the air despite high hopes to the contrary. Phil Mushnick added insult to injury to Buck by accusing him of "Trying to predict plays, as if to prove he was still on top."

“

My biggest problem was understanding my role. They wanted him to dominate the broadcast and have me be the mechanic and stay out of the way. I didn't want to broadcast that way. I guess I should have accepted it, but relying on my experience on GrandStand (NBC's NFL pregame show that Buck hosted in 1975) when I had not challenged anyone, I couldn't let others make all the decisions that put me in a position where I couldn't perform at all. — Jack Buck in his autobiography That's a Winner.

”

Buck also got into deep trouble with CBS executives (namely executive producer Ted Shaker) over questionable comments made towards singer Bobby Vinton in 1990. While on air prior to Game 4 of the that year's NLCS in Pittsburgh, Buck criticized Vinton's off-key rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner", making a comment towards Vinton that sounded like a prejudicial remark centered on Vinton's Polish heritage.^[50] Joe Buck believed that the situation was ironic because his father was "trying to help the guy." Buck began receiving death threats from Pirate fans and discovered a footprint on his pillow once he returned to his hotel room.

1992

Buck's replacement was Boston Red Sox announcer Sean McDonough.^[51] Ted Shaker called McDonough about his interests for the top announcing job, and after McDonough hung up the telephone, he claimed that he didn't want to act like a 10 year old but he jumped so high that he put a hole in his ceiling. McDonough, who was 30 years old at the time, became the youngest full-time network announcer to call a World Series when he called that year's Fall Classic alongside McCarver.

For CBS' coverage of the 1992 All-Star Game,^[52][53] they introduced Basecam,^[54] a lipstick-size camera, inside first base.

Over the course of Game 2 of the 1992 ALCS, Jim Kaat was stricken with a bad case of laryngitis.^[55] As a result, Johnny Bench had to come over from the CBS Radio booth and finish the game with Dick Stockton as a "relief analyst."^[56] There was talk that if Kaat's laryngitis did not get better, Don Drysdale was going to replace Kaat on TV for Game 3 while Bench would continue to work on CBS Radio.

Tim McCarver ran afoul of Atlanta Braves outfielder Deion Sanders during the 1992 postseason,^[57][58] when he made comments on air criticizing Sanders for his two-sport athletic career; Sanders was playing for both the Braves and the NFL's Atlanta Falcons at the time and participated in both the baseball postseason and the early NFL regular season for the first time in 1992 (Sanders was unable to do this in 1991, as his NFL contract would not allow him to). Sanders retaliated following Game 7 of the NLCS by dumping a bucket of ice water on McCarver (who was wired for sound and feared electrocution) as retaliation for the on-air comments.

McCarver was not immune to criticism from outside sources, either, as Norman Chad wrote a critique of him in Sports Illustrated during the postseason. Chad said that McCarver was someone who 'when you ask him the time, will tell you how a watch works,' a reference to McCarver's perceived tendency to overanalyze things. Chad went further by saying "What's the difference between Tim McCarver and appendicitis? Appendicitis is covered by most health plans."

McCarver was also known to make gaffes from time to time. One of his more amusing miscues came during the 1992 National League Championship Series when he repeatedly referred to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Tim Wakefield as "Bill Wakefield." He finally explained that Bill Wakefield was one of his old minor-league teammates, and he laughed at himself because "I forgot my own name!"'

During the 1992 postseason, CBS missed covering one of the three debates^[59] among U.S. presidential candidates George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot. The network had planned to join other broadcast and cable networks in the telecast; however, Game 4 of the ALCS between the Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland Athletics did not end until 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, about the time the debate ended. The Blue Jays won the game 7-6 in 11 innings. The other networks reported very good ratings for the debate, part of one of the more compelling election campaigns in recent times.

The CBS telecasts of the 1992 and 1993 Series (both involving the Toronto Blue Jays) were simulcast on CTV.^[60] in Canada. During this period, CTV produced their own pregame shows^[61][62] rather than simply taking the United States feed from CBS. Rod Black and Rob Faulds hosted CTV's pregame coverage, with CBS' Tim McCarver providing some additional pregame analysis.

Schedule

Date	Teams	Announcers
April 18, 1992	Chicago Cubs @ St. Louis Detroit @ Baltimore Oakland @ Texas (1 PM)
April 25, 1992	Oakland @ Minnesota (1 PM)
May 2, 1992	New York Mets @ Atlanta Texas @ Chicago White Sox (1 PM)
June 13, 1992	Boston @ Toronto Los Angeles @ Cincinnati Chicago White Sox @ Minnesota (1 PM)	Sean McDonough[63] and Tim McCarver
June 20, 1992	Oakland @ California Los Angeles @ Houston San Diego @ San Francisco (3 PM)
June 27, 1992	New York Mets @ St. Louis Atlanta @ Cincinnati Milwaukee @ Boston (1 PM)
July 4, 1992	Chicago Cubs @ Atlanta Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh Milwaukee @ Kansas City (1 PM)
July 11, 1992	St. Louis @ Los Angeles Philadelphia @ San Diego Montreal @ San Francisco (3 PM)
July 14	All-Star Game (Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego) (8 PM)	Sean McDonough and Tim McCarver
July 18, 1992	Boston @ Minnesota (dropped) Atlanta @ Houston (dropped) Texas @ Baltimore (1 PM)	Sean McDonough and Tim McCarver
July 25, 1992	Minnesota @ Boston Texas @ Baltimore Detroit @ California (3 PM)
August 1, 1992	New York Yankees @ Toronto St. Louis @ Pittsburgh Oakland @ Kansas City (1 PM)
August 8, 1992	Los Angeles @ Atlanta New York Mets @ Chicago Cubs (1 PM)
August 29, 1992	Cincinnati @ New York Mets San Francisco @ Chicago Cubs (dropped) Kansas City @ Detroit (dropped) Milwaukee @ Toronto (1 PM)
September 19, 1992	Boston @ Detroit Los Angeles @ San Francisco St. Louis @ Chicago Cubs (3 PM)
September 26, 1992	Oakland Athletics @ Milwaukee
October 3, 1992	Detroit Tigers @ Toronto Blue Jays

Note: All times eastern

1993

Lesley Visser missed the first half of the 1993 season because she suffered a bizarre jogging accident in New York's Central Park. Visser broke her hip and skidded face-first across the pavement. She required reconstructive plastic surgery on her face and more than a decade later required an artificial hip replacement. She returned to CBS Sports in July 1993 to cover the Major League Baseball All-Star Game^[64][65] as a pregame analyst instead of a field reporter due to the accident. So in Visser's place, came Jim Kaat while she recuperated. She ultimately returned to the baseball world in late August 1993.

As previously mentioned, also during the 1993 season, Andrea Joyce replaced Greg Gumbel^[66] (who in return, replaced Dick Stockton as the #2 play-by-play man) as studio host. Joyce would be joined at the anchor desk by Pat O'Brien. At the 1993 World Series, she became the first woman to co-host the network television coverage for a World Series.

During CBS' coverage of the 1993 World Series, umpires were upset with the overhead replays being televised by CBS. Dave Phillips, the crew chief, said just prior to Game 2 that the umpires want "CBS to be fair with their approach." Rick Gentile, the senior vice president for production of CBS Sports, said that Richie Phillips, the lawyer for the Major League Umpires Association, tried to call the broadcast booth during Saturday's game, but the call was not put through. Richie Phillips apparently was upset when Dave Phillips called the Philadelphia Phillies' Ricky Jordan out on strikes in the fourth inning, and a replay showed the pitch to be about 6 inches outside. National League President Bill White, while using a CBS headset in the broadcast booth during Game 1, was overheard telling Gentile and the producer Bob Dekas "You guys keep using that camera the way you want. Don't let Phillips intimidate you."

Schedule

Date	Teams	Announcers
April 17, 1993	New York Mets @ Cincinnati
April 24, 1993	Florida @ Colorado Cincinnati Reds @ Chicago Cubs	Sean McDonough and Tim McCarver Greg Gumbel and Jim Kaat
May 1, 1993	St. Louis @ Atlanta
May 8, 1993	Baltimore @ Toronto
May 15, 1993	Los Angeles @ Houston
May 22, 1993	New York Yankees @ Boston California @ Texas	Sean McDonough and Tim McCarver Greg Gumbel and Jim Kaat
May 29, 1993	San Francisco @ Atlanta
July 10, 1993	San Francisco @ Philadelphia
July 13, 1993	All-Star Game (Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore)	Sean McDonough and Tim McCarver
July 17, 1993	Oakland @ New York Yankees
July 24, 1993	Philadelphia @ San Francisco
July 31, 1993	Detroit @ Toronto
August 7, 1993	Boston @ Detroit
August 28, 1993	Chicago Cubs @ Atlanta
September 18	Boston @ New York Yankees New York Mets @ Atlanta
September 25	Atlanta @ Philadelphia
October 2, 1993	San Francisco @ Los Angeles

Reasons for CBS losing so much money may include

In the end, CBS wound up losing approximately half a billion dollars from their television contract with Major League Baseball. CBS repeatedly asked Major League Baseball for a rebate,^[67] but Major League Baseball wasn't willing to do this. According to Curt Smith's book The Voice - Mel Allen's Untold Story, one CBS executive wore a St. Louis Cardinals cap at a 1988 Christmas party. However, by 1992, pining to shed baseball, that same executive wore a cap styled "One More Year."

• CBS alienated and confused fans with their sporadic treatment of regular season telecasts.^[68] With a sense of true continuity destroyed, fans eventually figured that they couldn't count on CBS to satisfy their needs (thus poor ratings were a result). CBS televised about 16 regular season Saturday afternoon games (not counting back-up telecasts) which was 14 less than what NBC televised during the previous contract. According to Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, the reason for the cut back in regular season telecasts was in order for teams to sell them locally in order to make a direct profit.^[14] CBS used the strategy of broadcasting only a select amount of games in order to build a demand in response to supposedly sagging ratings. In response to this, NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol grinned "I assume [its] baseball strategy has to be a big disappointment." Counting the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series, CBS would've televised just 38 games. This comes on the account of both League Championship Series and the World Series going to a full seven games. In their first year in 1990, CBS Sports had a pretty loaded schedule (much came at the expense of the regular season baseball coverage): the NBA Playoffs (the 1989–90 season marked CBS' final year with the NBA before the over-the-air package moved over to NBC), College World Series, and college football (like the NBA, CBS would lose the CFA package soon after winning the Major League Baseball contract). CBS never scheduled baseball on Masters weekend, and seldom on other weekends when they had a PGA Tour event. It was around this time that CBS started expanding their weekend coverage from two hours to three on weekends when there was no baseball, generally from 3 to 6 p.m. ET. Most of their baseball dates landed on weeks when other networks covered golf.

Marv Albert, who hosted NBC's baseball pregame show for many years said about CBS' baseball coverage "You wouldn't see a game for a month. Then you didn't know when CBS came back on." Sports Illustrated joked that CBS stood for Covers Baseball Sporadically. USA Today added that Jack Buck and Tim McCarver "may have to have a reunion before [their] telecast." Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News took it a step further by calling CBS' baseball deal "The Vietnam of sports television."

NBC play-by-play man Bob Costas believed that a large bulk of the regular season coverage beginning in the 1990s to cable (namely, ESPN) because CBS, the network that was taking over from NBC the television rights beginning in 1990 didn't really want the Saturday Game of the Week. Many fans who didn't appreciate CBS' approach to scheduling regular season baseball games^[68] believed that they were only truly after the marquee events (i.e. All-Star Game, League Championship Series, and the World Series) in order to sell advertising space (especially the fall entertainment television schedule^[14][68][69]).

• The Toronto Blue Jays were in back-to-back World Series in their championship seasons of 1992 and 1993, as well as the 1991 ALCS. All of CBS' post-season telecasts were simulcast on CTV in Canada, and got very high ratings north of the border when the Jays were involved. Unfortunately, Canada does not factor in the Nielsen ratings so as a consequence, CBS got the lowest ratings in over 20 years for a World Series (not counting the earthquake interrupted 1989 World Series that was televised by ABC). In any other World Series, viewership would be higher since two American teams would be involved, to say nothing of spikes to off-the-chart ratings shares in the two competing cities (especially in 1991 when CBS was fortunate to cover the riveting, ultra intense, seven-game battle between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves). Another reasoning behind the poor ratings likely has to do with the gradual attrition of the audience for almost all network programming.

• The country at the time was going through a recession.

• CBS couldn't properly maximize the deal because the Division Series wasn't created yet (thus automatically giving CBS more games to carry) and they didn't have a cable outlet like Fox's Fox Sports Net. In reality, they were competing with ESPN and local broadcasts outside of CBS' broadcast window. More postseason games could've increased the advertising inventory.^[69] It should be noted that both ABC and NBC lost money on their in-season games the last three years they carried baseball (1987–1989).

• CBS simply made way too high of a bid^[12] (especially for a network that wound up frustrating fans with its lack of regular season coverage) and substained a shortfall in advertising revenue. Perhaps it is somewhat ironic that back in 1987, CBS Sports president Neal Pilson said of ABC's then ongoing contract with Major League Baseball "Three years ago, we believed ABC's package was overpriced by $175 million. We still believe it's overpriced by $175 million."^[70]

In 1991, it cost CBS $4.8 million per game in venue productions alone to show the National League Championship Series. This doesn't include studio backup operations or the satellite time needed to transmit the game to New York for broadcast on their network frequencies. The American League Championship Series (between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays) was another problem because of the tariffs and labor laws they had to endure going into Canada. CBS averaged $1.9–$2.4 million per regular season game. In return, it was typical for the production cost to double come playoff time.

The end of Major League Baseball on CBS

The final Major League Baseball game that CBS has televised to date, was Game 6 of the 1993 World Series on October 23. Before Major League Baseball decided to seek the services of other networks, CBS offered $120 million in annual rights fees over a two-year period,^[71] as well as advertising revenues in excess of $150 million a season.

In October 1995, when it was a known fact that ABC and NBC were going to end their television deal/joint venture with Major League Baseball, preliminary talks rose about CBS returning.^[72] It was rumored that CBS would show Thursday night games^[73] (more specifically, a package of West Coast interleague games scheduled for the 11:30 ET/8:30 PT slot) while Fox would show Saturday afternoon games. CBS and Fox were also rumored to share rights to the postseason. In the end however, CBS' involvement did not come to pass and NBC became Fox's over-the-air national television partner.

Miscellaneous quotes

Everyone at CBS who cared about baseball felt like they went through hell with it.

—CBS Sports producer Ed Goren

The overall revenues of the game have more than doubled since the early 1990s. The problem isn't that the game has insufficient popularity or revenues, the problem is that the game has an imperfect economic system, which often renders any amount of revenue, in the long run, inadequate. You know, they get another source of revenue and they flush it right down the drain. Look what happened when NBC lost baseball in the late 1980s. CBS comes in with this enormous deal for baseball, so the revenues are exponentially increased, but they frittered it all away immediately when the salary structure just immediately exploded right after that. At that time the top paid player made about $2 million a year. Within a couple of years you had dozens and dozens of players making $5 million a year.

—Bob Costas

Association with Major League Baseball on TBS

On the July 2, 2011 edition of The CBS Sports Spectacular, TBS' Atlanta based Major League Baseball studio crew of Matt Winer, Dennis Eckersley, Cal Ripken, Jr. and David Wells presented a 2011 Major League Baseball midseason report.^[74] This was followed by MLB 2011: Down the Stretch, which aired on September 24^[75]. CBS Sports and Turner Sports have in the past, teamed up on coverage of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and the Winter Olympics in 1992, 1994 and 1998.

Memorable calls

If you're Polish and you're from Pittsburgh, you can do anything you want with the words.

—Jack Buck in response to Bobby Vinton's less-than-perfect rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to Game 4 of the 1990 National League Championship Series.

Fly ball into deep, deep center field, McGee going back...it's going to go!!! You would think they had just won the World Series!

—Jack Buck calling Eric Davis' home run off Dave Stewart in Game 1 of the 1990 World Series.

That ball is...FAIR!!! Cincinnati's ahead two games to none!!!

—Jack Buck calling Joe Oliver's game winning base hit in Game 2 of the 1990 World Series.

(Billy) Hatcher flies to right field and (José) Canseco can't get it! It's off his glove...Hatcher's gonna end up at third!

—Jack Buck calling Billy Hatcher's seventh consecutive hit in the 1990 World Series.

Cincinnati, the champions of baseball for 1990...with an improbable sweep over Oakland!!!

—Jack Buck calling the final out in Game 4 of the 1990 World Series.

Robby Thompson gets to it...In Atlanta let the celebration begin!!!

—Jack Buck informing the viewers that the Atlanta Braves have clinched the 1991 Western Division title in the National League. This was ensured immediately after the Los Angeles Dodgers lost a game against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park.

And the Minnesota Twins have gone from the cellar to the penthouse in the American League!

—Dick Stockton calling the final out in Game 5 of the 1991 American League Championship Series.

And John Smoltz has pitched Atlanta into the World Series!

—Jack Buck at the conclusion of Game 7 of the 1991 National League Championship Series.

That's going to be a winner for Atlanta!!! The runner tags at third, here's the throw from Mack, here's Lemke...he is out..safe, safe, safe!!! They called him safe! Atlanta wins and they're going to say that Harper did not tag him!

—Jack Buck calling Jerry Willard's game winning sacrifice fly in Game 4 of the 1991 World Series.

Into deep left-center, for Mitchell...and we'll see you...TOMORROW NIGHT!

—Jack Buck, announcing Minnesota Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett's game winning 11th inning walk-off home run in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series against Charlie Leibrandt.

The play is to home! Out there...out there!!!

—Jack Buck calling Atlanta Brave Sid Bream hitting into a top of the 8th inning ending double play in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.

Atlanta hasn't scored in ten innings against Jack Morris!

—Jack Buck calling the end of the top of the 10th inning in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.

The Twins are going to win the World Series!!! The Twins have won it! It's a base hit! It's a 1-0 10th inning victory!

—Jack Buck calling Gene Larkin's game winning bloop single in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.

Deep to left...and there goes Ron Gant's first ever grand slam! — Sean McDonough calling Ron Gant's home run off Bob Walk in Game 2 of the 1992 National League Championship Series.

And a drive hit to right field, Sierra going back, looking up...and this game is tied, Roberto Alomar!

—Dick Stockton calling Roberto Alomar's top of the 9th inning home run off Dennis Eckersley in Game 4 of the 1992 American League Championship Series.

High fly ball, toward the line in left, calling for it is Maldonado, and the Blue Jays have finally won the pennant!

—Dick Stockton calling the final out in Game 6 of the 1992 American League Championship Series.

Line-drive and a base-hit!!! Justice has scored the tying run, Bream to the plate...and he's safe, safe at the plate!!! The Braves go to the World Series! The unlikeliest of heroes wins the National League Championship Series for the Atlanta Braves. Francisco Cabrera, who had only ten at-bats in the major leagues during the regular season, singled through the left side, scoring Sid Bream from second base with the winning run. Bream, who’s had five knee operations in his lifetime, just beat the tag from his ex-mate Mike LaValliere, and Atlanta pulls out Game 7 with three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning. This place is bedlam. There will be no second nightmare for Bobby Cox. The final score in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series: the Braves 3 and the Pirates 2.

—Sean McDonough calling Francisco Cabrera's dramatic game winning base hit in Game 7 of the 1992 National League Championship Series.

Well hit to left field to the wall Deion Sanders, home run Ed Sprague! Off the bench with a pinch hit two run homer off Jeff Reardon to give the Toronto Blue Jays a 5-4 lead!

—Sean McDonough during Game 2 of the 1992 World Series.

The runners go on the 3-and-2 to Winfield...down the line, a base hit into the left-field corner! White has scored, Alomar comes around...The ball gets away from Gant...It's a two-run double for Dave Winfield, and a 4-2 Toronto lead!

—Sean McDonough calling Dave Winfield's 1992 World Series winning double.

Timlin...Nixon bunts, Timlin on it, throws to first...for the first time in history, the World Championship banner will fly north of the border! The Toronto Blue Jays are baseball's best in 1992!

—Sean McDonough calling the final out of Game 6 of the 1992 World Series.

Fair ball, into the left field corner! Kruk around to score and Kim Batiste goes from goat to hero in a matter of minutes!

—Sean McDonough calling Phillies infielder Kim Batiste's 10th-inninng game-winning single in Game 1 of the 1993 National League Championship Series. Batiste had committed a 9th-inning error to allow the Atlanta Braves to tie the score and force extra innings.

The payoff pitch...He struck him out! And the Philadelphia Phillies have won the National League pennant!

—Sean McDonough calling the final out of Game 6 of the 1993 National League Championship Series.

Henderson to the plate with the go-ahead run!!!

—Sean McDonough responding to the Toronto Blue Jays regaining the lead in what turned out to be a wild 15-14 contest in Game 4 of the 1993 World Series.

In Canada, when you say PM they think of Prime Minister, but now they might start thinking Paul Molitor!

—Tim McCarver during Game 6 of the 1993 World Series.

Well-hit down the left-field line! Way back and gone! Joe Carter with a three-run homer! The winners and still world champions, the Toronto Blue Jays!

—Sean McDonough calling Joe Carter's dramatic World Series home run off Mitch Williams.

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External links

• MLB Baseball — CBS SportsLine.com
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See also

• Major League Baseball on CBS Radio