Gary F Thorne was born on June 9,1948 and is an American sportscaster.
41 Facts About Gary Thorne
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Gary Thorne was the lead play-by-play announcer for Baltimore Orioles games on MASN from 2007 to 2020.
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Gary Thorne has worked for ESPN and ABC, including National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, college football, and the Frozen Four hockey tournament.
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Gary Thorne's son-in-law, Damian DiGiulian, is a former assistant coach for the University of Vermont hockey team; Maine and Vermont are rivals in the Hockey East conference of Division I hockey.
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In 1985, Gary Thorne began a four-year stint as a radio announcer for the New York Mets.
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Gary Thorne was present in the booth at Shea Stadium, along with Bob Murphy, for the sixth game of the 1986 World Series between the Mets and Boston Red Sox.
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Gary Thorne was one of the first to criticize the Red Sox for leaving ill-fated Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in the 10th inning of the game over Dave Stapleton.
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Gary Thorne served as the TV play-by-play announcer for the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network's Baltimore Orioles games from 2007 to 2019.
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Gary Thorne was let go by MASN entirely on January 23,2021.
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On September 23,2022, Gary Thorne filled in for Wayne Randazzo on radio for a WCBS broadcast of game between the Mets and the Athletics.
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In 1989, Thorne was named a backup play-by-play announcer for ABC's coverage of Thursday Night Baseball telecasts with Joe Morgan.
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Gary Thorne served as a field reporter for the World Series and covered the World Series Trophy presentation for ABC.
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From 1996 until 2003, Gary Thorne served as the play-by-play man for the World Series produced by MLB International, airing in over 200 countries around the world, as well as on the American Forces Network.
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Likewise, it was Gary Thorne who was on the call for MLB International when New York Mets third baseman Robin Ventura hit a "Grand Slam Single" to end Game 5 of the 1999 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves after 15 innings.
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In 2008, Gary Thorne was named the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN Radio's Sunday Night Baseball coverage.
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Gary Thorne teamed with color commentator Dave Campbell to call a majority of the network's Sunday Night games, although occasionally other commitments would cause him to miss a broadcast, with other ESPN announcers filling in for him that week.
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Gary Thorne has worked on one of ESPN Radio's postseason Division Series crews each year, and called the 2008 All-Star Game for non-US viewers via MLB International television.
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Gary Thorne's voice is heard in Pepsi commercials featuring New York Yankees' Johnny Damon, the Minnesota Twins' Joe Mauer and MLB umpire Laz Diaz.
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Gary Thorne is the play-by-play announcer of the video games Major League Baseball 2K9, Major League Baseball 2K10, Major League Baseball 2K11, Major League Baseball 2K12, and Major League Baseball 2K13.
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From 2011 until 2016, Gary Thorne served as master of ceremonies for the National Baseball Hall of Fame's induction ceremonies.
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In 1977, Gary Thorne called hockey games for Augusta, Maine radio and television stations.
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Gary Thorne rose to prominence in Maine broadcasting, when he began calling play-by-play for the University of Maine's hockey games for Bangor radio station WABI.
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Gary Thorne was asked to call Maine hockey games during winter months until 1987 when the lure of doing play-by-play in the NHL became too strong for Gary Thorne to ignore.
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Gary Thorne missed several Mets games in the 1988 season due to Devils playoff games.
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Gary Thorne was replaced after that Mets season by Gary Cohen.
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Gary Thorne spent the following season with the Chicago White Sox.
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In March 2014, Gary Thorne called several high school games in the Class AA Minnesota State High School League boys hockey tournament for local independent TV station KSTC-TV.
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When interviewed by The New York Times, Gary Thorne expressed his enjoyment for being asked to announce.
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From 1992 to 2004, Gary Thorne called NHL play-by-play for games on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC, including many of the latter-round playoff games.
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Gary Thorne was almost always paired with color commentator Bill Clement during these ESPN-produced telecasts.
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NBC enlisted Gary Thorne to call the hockey tournament with John Davidson during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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In 2005, when ESPN dropped out of the bidding for NHL hockey games, Gary Thorne began doing play-by-play for baseball and college football on ESPN.
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Gary Thorne picked up duties as the lead play-by-play announcer for the Frozen Four, again paired with color commentator Bill Clement and Darren Pang.
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Gary Thorne called the end of two long-running Stanley Cup droughts, in 1994 for the New York Rangers and 1997 for the Detroit Red Wings.
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Gary Thorne was named to call the play-by-play of Team USA's games in the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships for the NHL Network alongside Dave Starman.
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Gary Thorne returned to NHL Network in 2011 to call Team USA's games in the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
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Gary Thorne himself had expressed his interest in making a return to the network to call some of their games.
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Gary Thorne was the announcer for ABC's coverage of the Capital One Bowl for 2004 and 2005.
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In 2011, Gary Thorne joined CBS Sports Network as a play-by-play man for college football and has been paired with Randy Cross as color analyst.
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In September 2002, Gary Thorne reportedly talked of dissension in the Mets clubhouse between manager Bobby Valentine and the team's players.
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Gary Thorne explained that it was in the context of the sarcasm and the jabbing that goes on in the clubhouse.