Syracuse, N.Y. —Bob Costas is again in baseball.
Costas who spent practically 4 many years with NBC, is returning as the host of the Sunday Night Baseball pregame show main into video games on NBC (and simulstreamed on Peacock).
Costas debuts as host of NBC’s new primetime MLB bundle on Thursday, March 26, at Dodger Stadium, because the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Costas, a 29-time Sports Emmy winner, has one of the vital completed sports activities broadcasting tenures ever at NBC Sports included internet hosting 12 Olympic Games, seven Super Bowls, doing play-by-play for 10 NBA Finals and 7 World Series. He additionally served as host for marquee occasions together with the Kentucky Derby, the U.S. Open, and the historic 2015 Belmont Stakes.
Even with that all-time broadcasting resume, baseball grew to become the game Costas is synonymous with together with incomes induction into the National Baseball Hall of Famei n Cooperstown.
Costas served as a play-by-play voice and host for NBC Sports’ MLB coverage for 15 seasons (1982-89; 1994-2000).
“I think NBC’s signature has always been for a long time, no matter what the sport is, storytelling,” Costas mentioned throughout a convention name with media on Thursday. “Each game is part of the story of a season, part of the story of a career, part of the story, as it fits in the history of baseball. You don’t push it too hard, but it’s there. And I think that while others have done a good job with that, nobody, over time, ever matched the way NBC did that.”
Costas has been with MLB Network since its inception in 2009, serving as each a bunch and a play-by-play announcer, and referred to as postseason video games on the community and for Turner Sports.
“We’re excited that Bob has agreed to come home to NBC Sports, where he helped make baseball an iconic brand earlier in his career for so many years,” mentioned Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. “There is no more knowledgeable, authoritative and passionate voice on baseball than Bob Costas.”
Costas started his skilled broadcasting profession whereas a scholar at Syracuse with WSYR-TV and radio in 1973 and because the play-by-play voice of the Syracuse Blazers of the Eastern Hockey League.
Syracuse University honored Costas with the George Arents Award, SU’s highest alumni honor, for excellence in sports activities broadcasting in 2001.
Costas obtained the Newhouse Sports Media Center’s first Marty Glickman Award for Excellence in Sports Media in 2014.