{"id":1850042,"date":"2023-02-16T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850042"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:05:59","slug":"all-star-catcher-hall-of-fame-broadcaster-tim-mccarver-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-star-catcher-hall-of-fame-broadcaster-tim-mccarver-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Catcher, Hall Of Fame Broadcaster Tim McCarver Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fall-star-catcher-hall-of-fame-broadcaster-tim-mccarver-dies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>All-Star catcher Tim McCarver is a Hall of Fame broadcaster and Hall of Fame broadcaster. He is the favorite catcher of Steve Carlton and Bob Gibson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-02-16\/tim-mccarver-big-league-catcher-and-broadcaster-dies-at-81?leadSource=uverify%20wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a> At the age of 81.<\/p>\n<p>McCarver made his debut with the St. Louis Cardinals at 17 years old, playing in eight games. McCarver was their starting catcher by 1963, having played in 127 games and batting.289. Gibson won the first of his two World Series Championships, which he shared with the Cardinals, in 1964. In seven games, the Cardinals beat the New York Yankees. The Cardinals won the Series with his three-run homer, which was in the tenth of the fifth inning. This was in a Series that saw him bat a staggering.478. Three years later, they won the Series again by defeating the \u201cImpossible Dream\u201d Boston Red Sox win seven games. McCarver was second in MVP voting that year with a.295 average.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson,\u201d McCarver once made a joke. \u201cHe told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was it was hard to hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarver played later for the Philadelphia Phillies, starting in 1970 with the Montreal Expos and ending the 1972 season with them. He then returned to the Cardinals in 1973-74. McCarver also played a few games with Boston Red Sox at both the end of 1974 as well as the beginning of 1975. McCarver was then traded to the Phillies once more. He teamed up again with Carlton, who had previously played with McCarver on the Cardinals, but McCarver would pitch to McCarver by the time McCarver joined them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehind every successful pitcher, there has to be a very smart catcher, and Tim McCarver is that man,\u201d Carlton, nicknamed \u201cLefty,\u201d He was recalled during his Hall of Fame Induction Speech in 1994. \u201cTimmy forced me pitch inside. Early in my career I was reluctant to pitch inside. Timmy had a way to remedy this. He used to set up behind the hitter. There was just the umpire there; I couldn\u2019t see him (McCarver), so I was forced to pitch inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarver made a joke about the distance between the home plate and the pitching mound before he was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2017. \u201cWhen Lefty and I leave this world, they should bury me 60 feet, 6 inches from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is a natural bridge from being a catcher to talking about the view of the game and the view of the other players,\u201d McCarver \u2014 who won six Emmys after he started his broadcast career in 1980 \u2014 Telled the Hall of Fame when he and Buck received the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting. \u201cIt is translating that for the viewers. One of the hard things about television is staying contemporary and keeping it simple for the viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome broadcasters think that their responsibility is to the team and the team only,\u201d McCarver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/35673836\/world-series-champion-tv-analyst-tim-mccarver-dies-81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The New York Times. \u201cI have never thought that. My No. 1 obligation is to the people who are watching the game. And I\u2019ve always felt that praise without objective criticism ceases to be praise. To me, any intelligent person can figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarver was a baseball expert who also wrote the books \u201cBaseball for Brain Surgeons &#038; Other Fans\u201d And \u201cTim McCarver\u2019s Diamond Gems: Favorite Baseball Stories from The Legends of the Game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster Tim McCarver, the favorite catcher of two Hall of Fame pitchers, Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton, has died at the age of 81. McCarver debuted with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959 at the age of 17, playing in eight games. 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