Herb Carneal

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Herb Carneal (born May 10, 1923) is a Major League Baseball announcer. Since 1962, he has been a play-by-play voice of Minnesota Twins radio broadcasts, becoming the lead announcer in 1967 after Ray Scott left to work exclusively with CBS. His monotone voice and laid-back demeanor have become well-loved by Twins fans. His enduring nickname is "The Voice of the Twins."

Carneal first broadcast major league games for the Philadelphia Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies in 1954. From 1957 to 1961 he was employed by the Baltimore Orioles.

Since 2002, Carneal has scaled back his work commitment to providing play-by-play for one-half of Twins home games only. By 2007, he will work only 36 games. As of 2007, Carneal worked in partnership with fellow radio commentators John Gordon, and Dan Gladden.

Carneal received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996, and was inducted into the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting's Hall of Fame in 2004.