Hall-of-Fame Twins' Broadcaster Dies

[NCCubFan]

Herb Carneal, radio voice of the Minnesota Twins for the past 45 years (all except for the team's first year in existence in Minnesota), has died of congestive heart failure at 83. He died this morning. He was the 1996 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasters. Edited April 1, 2007 by NCCubFan

[Fred Hornkohl]

Carneal was an excellent broadcaster. I enjoyed listening to him when I lived in the Twin Cities.

 

NCCF..... I know it's only semantics, but the Twins were a charter member of the American League in 1901. They played in DC from 1901-1960, then moved to the Minneapolis area and changed their name to the Minnesota Twins. They have "been in existence" now for 106 years.

[NCCubFan]

True. I left off the "in Minnesota" part of that statement. The second Washington Senators franchise (the one that started after the first one moved to Minnesota) is now the Texas Rangers.