![]() ![]() ![]() “The A’s made a very strong hire.”īy the end of this April 14 night, Doskow will be doing A’s play-by-play for the first time as a full-fledged member of their broadcast team, checking off the item that’s been on his to-do list since his childhood. “Long past the time when he deserved to get the call,” veteran broadcaster Jon Miller said. Doskow paid his off like a 30-year mortgage.Īfter more than 4,000 games of honing his craft in near-obscurity, after countless bus rides and Southwest Airlines aisle seats, after a stack of rejection letters as thick and unsettling as a Stephen King manuscript, after nailing calls on dramatic home runs and only once making a young spelling bee champion cry on the air, the Crash Davis of the broadcast booth was headed to The Show. “Put in there that I was on the fast track,” Doskow said with a laugh.īroadcasters, like players, tend to pay their dues in the minors. ![]() His estimate was only off by three decades. He figured he’d spend two years in the Midwest League, get a solid year of seasoning at Triple A and settle behind a major-league mic by 1996. ![]() Shucks was born.)ĭoskow was good in that first job and listeners gravitated to him. That Low-A team was so cash-strapped it had to make a hard decision about whether to splurge on a fax machine or a mascot costume. He started his broadcasting career in 1993 as the radio voice for the Cedar Rapids Kernels. ![]()
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