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Richard Edward Stokvis (born November 22, 1942), known professionally as Dick Stockton, is an Americans retired sportscaster. Stockton began his career in Philadelphia, then moved to Pittsburgh, where he worked as the sports director for KDKA-TV. In Boston, he called Boston Celtics games for WBZ-TV and Red Sox games for WSBK-TV before transitioning to national broadcasting, which included calling the 1975 World Series for NBC and later, the NBA Finals for CBS. In a career that spanned over five decades, Stockton worked for several different networks, most prominently CBS Sports, Fox Sports, and Turner Sports.
Stockton stayed silent as Fisk rounded the bases, waiting until he made his way into the Red Sox dugout before proclaiming: "We will have a seventh game in this 1975 World Series."
On January 23, 1972, he filled-in for Jim Gordon who was not in Boston Garden for the Buffalo-Boston NHL game on CBS, working the game with Dan Kelly. As previously mentioned, although Stockton was doing some work for The NFL on CBS, was also at the time a sports anchor for WBZ-TV in Boston.
Also while at CBS Sports, he called nine NBA Finals, including the 1984, 1985 and 1987 finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. Stockton partnered with Bill Russell to call the finals from 1982 to 1983, Tom Heinsohn for the finals from 1984 to 1987, Billy Cunningham for the 1988 finals, and Hubie Brown for the 1989 and 1990 finals.
On May 7, 1989, Stockton and Hubie Brown, were behind the microphone for the fifth and decisive game for the NBA's Eastern Conference First round playoff series between the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers. The game was highlighted by a buzzer-beater The Shot by Michael Jordan to give the Bulls a 101–100 win and clinch a series victory.
CBS would lose their broadcasting rights to the NBA to NBC following the 1989–90 season. At the end of CBS' coverage of Game 5 of the 1990 NBA Finals, Stockton signed off with the following message:
In 2001, Stockton received the Curt Gowdy Electronic Media Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
As previously mentioned, Stockton called Major League Baseball for CBS from 1990 to 1992. Working alongside Jim Kaat, Stockton was the number #2 play-by-play man behind Jack Buck and subsequently Sean McDonough. He and Kaat also called the American League Championship Series during that time period. It was initially speculated that Stockton would not have been available to contribute as the secondary play-by-play announcer due to his football and basketball commitments for CBS. Stockton would, however, be replaced by Greg Gumbel in 1993.
For the Game 5 of the 1991 ALCS between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays, Stockton called the final out by saying "And the Minnesota Twins have gone from the cellar to the penthouse in the American League." The following year in Game 4 of the ALCS between Toronto and the Oakland Athletics, Stockton described Roberto Alomar's game-tying home run off of Oakland closer Dennis Eckersley by saying “A drive to right field, Sierra going back, looking up and this game is tied! Roberto Alomar!”
In addition, he was the host of the Pan American Games in San Juan in 1979, and covered swimming and diving at the Pan American Games in Edmonton and Caracas. Stockton also broadcast the World Swimming and Diving Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the World Basketball Championships in Cali, Colombia, and the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki in the first year that CBS acquired the rights. When CBS began covering the Winter Olympics, Stockton was assigned to cover skiing in France in 1992 and two years later, he called the speed skating events in the 1994 Norway Games including Dan Jansen's record-breaking triumph of the 1000 meter gold medal as well as the gold medal victories of Bonnie Blair. (1998). 9781461712961, Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 9781461712961
Stockton called Major League Baseball telecasts for the Fox broadcast network/FX in some shape or form from 1997 through 2013.
From the time he was hired until 2006, he was Fox's second-team announcer for NFL games (behind Pat Summerall and later, Joe Buck), working alongside Matt Millen and then Troy Aikman, Daryl Johnston, and Tony Siragusa. For Fox's MLB coverage, he has partnered with Eric Karros, Joe Girardi, Mark Grace and Tim McCarver and others. He most recently worked with Mark Schlereth for football.
Additionally, he called a limited slate of college basketball games on FS1 for 3 seasons from 2013 to 2016.
Dick Stockton's performance on TBS' baseball telecasts hasn't been without criticism. For instance, during the 2013 NLDS (St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh), he was cited as often misidentifying players, generally appearing confused at times, and never having hosting chemistry with his analyst Bob Brenly.
Stockton did the play-by-play commentary for NFL Fever 2000 alongside Matt Millen.
In 2017, Stockton launched his own podcast entitled Stockton!, where he interviewed famous athletes.
On March 25, 2021, Stockton announced his retirement from broadcasting.
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