Steve Zabriskie

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Steven Kenneth Zabriskie (born May 13, 1947, in Palo Alto, California) is an American former television sports announcer who is best known for calling Major League Baseball and college football.

Announcing career

Zabriskie was a television sports play-by-play announcer for 30 years, during which he was awarded three

college basketball games for ESPN
for four seasons.

He served as a play-by-play announcer on

college basketball games for CBS Sports and was a play-by-play announcer for The Baseball Network. While working for The Baseball Network in association with ABC, Zabriskie and Tommy Hutton called Game 3 of the 1995 American League Division Series between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox
.

He also broadcast baseball games for the

USA Network. And on June 18, 1988, Zabriskie and Kurt Bevacqua called a game between the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds for NBC. Also worked for WTAE-TV
in Pittsburgh as a Sports Announcer from 1976 to 1978, being known to Pittsburgers as "The Big Z".

Zabriskie retired from broadcasting following the 1997 baseball season and has had a successful career as a registered financial adviser.

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