Native St. Louisan and former Cardinals radio and television play-by-play announcer Bob Carpenter never made it big in his home state, but is about to receive a huge honor in the place he has been living for more than four decades.
Carpenter has been selected for induction into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame. Previous inductees include legendary names such as Oral Roberts, Gene Autry, Paul Harvey and Will Rogers.
Carpenter, currently the TV voice of baseball’s Washington Nationals, has lived in Tulsa since he began his broadcasting career there in 1976. He arrived to call games of the Oilers, then the Cardinals’ Triple A farm team that had Ken Boyer as the manager with Garry Templeton at shortstop.