Two former Minnesota Twins TV play-by-play voices - Bob Kurtz and Ted Robinson - each will handle 25 games on Twins radio during the 2011 regular season, while 70-year-old primary announcer John Gordon cuts back his workload to about 90 games. the team announced today.
Kris Atteberry, the regular pre- and post-game radio host, will work about 45 games, according to a news release from the club.
Ex-Twins outfielder Dan Gladden will be back for about 140 games, with the broadcast booth getting an assist of about 25 games from Twins' 1991 World Series teammate and hero, Jack Morris.
Gordon, 70, will mark his 25th year in the Twins radio broadcast booth, while Gladden enters his 12th year as a team broadcaster. The Twins say Gordon decided to reduce his work schedule.
Morris, a St. Paul native, has helped broadcast games for seven seasons; Atteberry begins his fifth season.
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Robinson spent six seasons in the Twins TV booth, in 1984 and again in 1988 through 1992, including the Twins' Series winning season in 1991. He is the lead announcer for NBC's tennis coverage, the radio play-by-play voice of the NFL's San Francisco Giants and has handled baseball play-by-play for multiple national networks and the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and Oakland Athletics.
Kurtz, for 11 seasons the radio voice of Minnesota Wild NHL hockey, was a seven-season member of the Twins TV broadcasts, from 1979 to 1986. His former baseball play-by-play work also includes the Boston Red Sox.
