JON MILLER
Jon Miller, the "Voice of the Giants," enters his 13th season in the broadcast booth on KNBR Radio. An award-winning broadcast veteran of more than 20 years, Miller is also the play-by-play commentator on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball telecasts.Miller, noted for his eloquent game description, golden voice and marvelous sense of humor, spent 14 years with the Baltimore Orioles before coming to San Francisco in 1997. Prior to joining Baltimore in 1983, the talented broadcaster spent two seasons with the Texas Rangers (1978-79) and three seasons with the Boston Red Sox (1980-82). During his 16-year tenure at ESPN, he has been nominated six times for an "ACE" award, emblematic of cable television excellence, and won the award in 1991 and 1996 for his play-by-play work. Nominated twice for a national Emmy Award in 1995 and 1996, Miller has broadcast the World Series on ESPN Radio the past eight years. The Bay Area native has also broadcast hockey, basketball and soccer in his distinguished career.
DAVE FLEMMING
Dave Flemming, the youngest active Major League broadcaster, begins his 6th year of broadcasting for a big league club. Before becoming part of the KNBR broadcast team, Flemming spent three seasons as the play-by-play announcer for the Pawtucket Red Sox, Boston's triple-A affiliate. In addition to his PawSox duties, he also broadcast Brown University basketball and hockey. Before moving to Pawtucket, Flemming broadcast play-byplay for the Visalia Oaks in 2000, and served a dual role as the team's assistant general manager. The Alexandria, VA native received a Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Stanford, and a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. While at Stanford, Flemming broadcast Cardinal baseball, men's and women's basketball, football, and served as sports director at the school's radio station, KZSU Radio.
MIKE KRUKOW
Mike Krukow enters his 15th full season as color analysts for KNBR. A five-time Emmy award winner, Krukow's playing career in the majors spanned 14 years and three teams: the Chicago Cubs (1976-81), Philadelphia Phillies (1982) and San Francisco Giants (1983-89), where his enthusiasm both on and off the field made him a fan favorite. "Kruk," who was named as the starting right-handed pitcher to the 1980's Giants All- Decade Team in a vote by Bay Area media in 1999, is noted for his deep knowledge of the game and tremendous sense of humor. A 20-game winner for the Giants in 1986, Krukow retired after the 1989 season with a 124-117 career record and a 3.90 ERA.
DUANE KUIPER
Duane Kuiper begins his 24th season as a Major League announcer. He embarks on his 14th consecutive year with the KNBR Radio broadcast. The 11-year big league infielder has won the prestigious Emmy Award five times in his distinguished broadcasting career in the category of "On Camera Sports." He provided commentary for the Giants from 1987-92 and served a one-year stint with the expansion Colorado Rockies in 1993. The former infielder spent the last four years of his career with the Giants, following seven campaigns with the Cleveland Indians. In 2004 he was voted by Cleveland fans as one of the 100 greatest players in Tribe history. After retiring in 1985, Kuiper provided commentary on Giants radio and TV broadcasts through the end of that season, and had his own radio show on KNBR from 1982-85. The Wisconsin native serves as a board member of the Giants Community Fund.
J.T. SNOW
JACK THOMAS (J.T.) SNOW Jr. and his wife Stacie reside in San Mateo, CA with their son Shane. J.T. is a 1987 graduate of Los Alamitos (CA) High School, where he lettered in baseball, football and basketball. He earned All-League and All-CIF honors in all 3 sports and was a high school teammate of former Giants closer Robb Nenn. Snow played 3 seasons (1987-89) at the University of Arizona, and as a junior, led the club in hitting (.359) and was named to the All-Pac 10 club. He holds school record in career putouts (1,651) and played with future major leaguers Scott Erickson and Trevor Hoffman on the 1989 Pac 10 champion club. J.T. has been a community leader throughout his distinguished major league career. Since the start of the 2000 season, he purchased the equivalent of 25 tickets to each home game at San Francisco's SBC Park to be used by cancer patients and underprivileged groups. For the last 4 seasons, he was a spokesperson for Pets in Need, the first private no-kill adoption center serving the Bay Area. He has also filmed a PSA to raise awareness on the issue of domestic violence. He turned in a .997 fielding percentage at first base, committing only 3 miscues in 874 total chances. J.T. logged a 48-game errorless streak from May 6-August 10, 2005.
MYCHAEL URBAN
Mychael Urban hosts Sportsphone 680-The Giants Pre and Post game shows on KNBR for the 2010 season. Mychael has an in-depth knowledge of baseball, and great contacts inside the game. He's also a published author, having written the book "Aces", which is an inside story of the A's three pitchers Hudson, Mulder and Zito. Mychael is currently the National Baseball writer for mlb.com. Through the book, he has a very close relationship with Barry Zito which we hope will help us this season. Mychael has filled in numerous times on KNBR over the past two years, and we're looking fortunate to have him handling our Giants weekend programming.
MARTY LURIE
Marty Lurie was born in Brooklyn, New York on Feb. 1st, 1946. He saw his first baseball game in Ebbets field in 1954. Marty began his radio career at KECG 88.1 fm in El Cerrito, California. He hosted the Oakland A’s pre game radio show in 1998 which led into all A’s games during both the regular and post season through 2009. Marty has broadcasted over 2000 pre and post game shows in career. His show aired on stations KATD 990 am, KABL 960 am, KFRC 610 am, KYCY 1550 am, 106.9 FM ,and 860 am at various times from 1998 through 2009. He was also invited to speak at the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York on induction weekend 2002 in the bull pen theater about his work compiling the oral history of baseball. He has conducted over 5,000 baseball interviews and is the exclusive interviewer for the Major League Baseball players association (players talk). Since 2004, Marty writes a baseball column for the Bay Area News Group (“batter up”) every Sunday during the baseball season, and now he is the host for KNBR’s Giants Pre/Post game shows. You can find more of Marty’s work at loveofthegameproductions.com