Scott quickly became a well-known figure in the Hollywood/Los Angeles scene. Scott landed a job as the Stars’ play-by-play announcer beginning in 1952. Scott was looking for a higher-level announcing job, and Spink suggested he contact Bob Cobb, owner of the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League (and also owner of Hollywood’s famous Brown Derby Restaurants). Taylor Spink, publisher of The Sporting News. In Virginia, Scott met his wife, Dorothy, and on a late honeymoon in Havana, Cuba, in 1951, he ran into J.G. He began working in broadcasting and landed his first baseball play-by-play gig in Norfolk, Virginia, where he did re-creations of major league games by day and live minor league games at night. Born in Chicago in 1915, Scott excelled in track, baseball, and basketball, but a knee injury suffered playing football at the University of Illinois ended his athletic career. Mark Scott was more than just the host of Home Run Derby he was one of the creators of the show. And that seems curious, because Home Run Derby was an L.A.-and Hollywood-production through and through. The show’s host, Mark Scott, never mentioned the name of the park or its Southern California location. But to fans unfamiliar with PCL baseball, the park was a mystery. Home Run Derby was filmed at L.A.’s Wrigley Field, former home of the Pacific Coast League Los Angeles Angels and soon to become the first-year home of the expansion L.A. Decades before it invaded the All-Star Game, Home Run Derby sprouted in the fertile soil of Hollywood. One of his brothers is San Francisco Giants announcer Duane Kuiper, a former major league player.It was just the top of the first, and Willie Mays hit four home runs before Mickey Mantle could even step to the plate. Kuiper was in his 20th season as the Athletics’ lead voice and had covered Bay Area baseball since 1992 for NBC Sports California, according to the team. We are working to address the situation.” “The Oakland Athletics do not condone such language. “The language used by Glen Kuiper during (Friday’s) pregame broadcast is unacceptable,” the team said in a statement. The Athletics had called Kuiper’s language “unacceptable.”
I hope all of all you find it in yourselves to do the same!” And while I don’t pretend to know Glen’s heart I do know that my heart is one of forgiveness. The word is painful and has no place in our society. “I welcomed Glen to the NLBM yesterday and know he was genuinely excited to be here. “I’m aware of the unfortunate slur made by Glen Kuiper,” Kendrick said on May 6. Just after the incident, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick issued a statement on Twitter. I hope you will accept my sincerest apologies.”ĬNN has not been able to reach Kuiper, who had been suspended since the remark, for comment on the latest development. He apologized again the next day, saying, “I could not be more sorry and horrified by what I said. Oakland Athletics' announcer suspended indefinitely after using racial slur of the Oakland Athletics works from the pressbox during the game against the Chicago White Sox at Hohokam Stadium on Main Mesa, Arizona. MESA, AZ - MARCH 8: Broadcaster Glen Kuiper Jr.
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