Herb Carneal

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Herb Carneal (May 10, 1923 - April 1, 2007) was an American Major League Baseball sportscaster. Since 1962, he was 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 mellow baritone voice and laid-back demeanor were well-loved by Twins fans. His enduring nickname was "The Voice of the Twins."

A Richmond, Virginia native, 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 had scaled back his work commitment to providing play-by-play for one-half of Twins home games only. By 2007, he was scheduled to work only 36 games. Until 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.

Herb Carneal died on April 1, 2007 of congestive heart failure.^[1]