Much will be made this baseball season of how veteran ESPN announcer Beth Mowins is breaking new ground as one of Marquee Sports Network’s three backup Chicago Cubs play-by-play voices.
Plenty of fans probably have no idea she was a part-time member of the TV and radio broadcast team covering the beloved 1977 Sox team remembered as the South Side Hit Men.
“It’s a very loose (broadcast) team, a very loose arrangement,” Shane told the Tribune at the time. “We don’t even have regular positions.”
A typical game for her involved an inning of play-by-play on radio, then one on TV, and analysis laced throughout the rest of the game on both.