Joe Angel
American sportscaster
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Joseph Angel (born May 5, 1948) is a retired American sportscaster best known for calling play-by-play for several Major League Baseball teams, including 19 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles Radio Network . A native of Bogotá , Colombia , Angel is famous for his proper pronunciation of Latino players' names.
Biography
As a teenager, Angel first emigrated with his family to Chicago , before eventually settling in the San Francisco Bay Area . In high school he played baseball and football (teaming with O. J. Simpson on the latter), and after graduating from City College of San Francisco began a career in broadcasting. [ citation needed ]
In the 1970s Angel broadcast for the San Francisco Giants (1977–78), as well as Stanford University football and University of San Francisco basketball . Stints with the Minnesota Twins (1984–86), Baltimore Orioles (1988–90, 1992) and New York Yankees (1991) followed. In 1993, he left the Orioles to become the Florida Marlins ' first radio voice, and was behind the microphone for the Marlins' first world championship in 1997, which was the same year he took over the television broadcast as well, a position he would hold until 2000. After two years with ESPN (2000–01), Angel returned to the Giants in 2002 (teaming with former Orioles partner Jon Miller ); and in 2004 he began a second tenure with the Orioles. In his career, he was also engaged in World Series two times as a broadcaster. [1]
Angel lives in El Dorado Hills, California with his wife Antoinette. He has three grown children: Tony, Natalie and Jonathan. [2] Angel's son, Jonathan, was one of the stars of the teen sitcom Saved by the Bell: The New Class .
On February 14, 2019, Joe Angel announced his retirement. [3]
Signature calls
- Angel would end every Marlins win with "And the Marlins are in: the Wiiiiiiin Column!" He would later end Orioles wins with the same call.
- He also refers to statistics following an Orioles win as the "lovely totals," while following an O's loss says the "not so lovely totals."
- He also has 2 notable home run calls, "Hasta la vista pelota!" as well as "Wave that baby bye-bye (player's name)!"
- His most famous call came in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series as Edgar Renteria singled off of Charles Nagy : "A five-year old child has become king!"
References
- ↑ Baltimore Orioles Broadcasters Archived 2019-09-22 at the Wayback Machine MLB.com
- ↑ Baltimore Orioles Broadcasters Archived 2019-09-22 at the Wayback Machine MLB.com
- ↑ Angel, Joe (14 February 2019). "You may have heard..after 42 years..the game has ended. I wind up "IN THE WINNN COLUMN" Thank you Baltimore for the privilege, memories and Lovely Totals. I will miss you.I am now retired...and an #orioles fan forever. Hoping my greatest Oriole memory is yet to come. Luv u all" . @WaveItByeBye . Retrieved 21 February 2019 .