Dick Stockton Dick Stockton ( born November 22 , 1942 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American sportscaster . He is currently employed by Fox Sports and Turner Sports as a football , baseball , and basketball play - by - play announcer . Biography . Early life and career . Stockton attended Syracuse University , where he received his degree in political science in 1964 . In 1965 , he began his sportscasting career at local radio and television stations in Philadelphia . He became sports director at KDKA - TV in Pittsburgh in 1967 , and moved to WBZ - TV and WBZ radio in Boston in 1971 . Three years later , he began calling Boston Celtics telecasts for WBZ , and the following year he became the lead announcer for Boston Red Sox games on WSBK - TV . Stockton was part of the broadcast crew for NBC Sports ' coverage of the 1975 World Series , and called , on TV , Carlton Fisk ' s famous , game - winning home run in Game 6 of that series . In 2001 , he was inducted as a broadcaster into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame . Stockton has been named as one of the top 50 network sportscasters of all time . Broadcasting career . CBS Sports . Stockton started freelancing for CBS Sports in the late 1960s , while still doing local television in Pittsburgh . In 1978 ( following a two - year stint calling NFL games for NBC ) , he joined CBS full - time , and from then until 1994 covered a variety of sports for that network , including the NFL , the NBA ( for which Stockton was the lead play - by - play man from 1981 - 1990 ) , Major League Baseball ( with Jim Kaat from 1990 - 1992 . Stockton was the number # 2 play - by - play man behind Jack Buck and Sean McDonough in 1992 . ) , college basketball including ten years as a play - by - play broadcaster of the NCAA Regional Finals . Stockton also was the host at the famous upset of Villanova over Georgetown in 1985 . In addition , he was the host of the Pan American Games in San Juan in 1979 , and covered swimming and diving at the Pan American Games in Edmonton and Caracas . Stockton also broadcast the World Swimming and Diving Championships in Guayaquil , Ecuador , the World Basketball Championships in Cali , Colombia , and the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki in the first year that CBS acquired the rights . When CBS began covering the Winter Olympics , Stockton was assigned to cover men ' s alpine skiing in France in 1992 and two years later , called the speed skating events in the 1994 Norway Games including Dan Jansen ' s record - breaking triumph of the 1000 meter gold medal as well as the gold medal victories of Bonnie Blair . Fox Sports . Stockton left CBS in 1994 for Fox Sports , which continues to employ him on NFL and Major League Baseball telecasts . From the time he was hired until 2006 , he was the Fox ' s second - team announcer for NFL games ( behind Pat Summerall and later , Joe Buck ) , working alongside Matt Millen then Troy Aikman , Daryl Johnston , and Tony Siragusa . For Fox ' s MLB coverage , he has worked with Eric Karros , Joe Girardi , Mark Grace and Tim McCarver . Turner Sports . Since 1995 , Stockton has called NBA telecasts for Turner ' s TNT channel . Since , Stockton has called postseason Major League Baseball games on TBS . That year , he partnered with Ron Darling to call the National League Division Series for the network . In , he called the AL Central tiebreaker game with Darling and Harold Reynolds , followed by the NLDS with Darling and Tony Gwynn . In , he teamed with Bob Brenly to call the NLDS for TBS , as well as the 2010 National League Division Series . Stockton split play - by - play duties during the regular season on TBS with " NBA on TNT " studio host Ernie Johnson , Jr . and Milwaukee Brewers announcer Brian Anderson . In , he partnered with Ron Darling and John Smoltz to call the National League Division Series for TBS . Other . From 1993 to 1995 , Stockton also called local TV broadcasts of the Oakland Athletics . In 2004 , he began doing part - time local television work for the San Antonio Spurs . Stockton commentated on Super Bowl XXXVIII alongside Daryl Johnston and Super Bowl XLII alongside Sterling Sharpe on the international feed , provided by the NFL Network . This is the feed used by the BBC and certain other English - language broadcasters outside North America . Starting in 2010 , Dick assumed play - by - play duties for Miami Dolphins preseason games on WFOR ; he substituted for Jimmy Cefalo as play - by - play on the Dolphins ' radio call of the team ' s " Monday Night Football " game against the New England Patriots on October 4 , 2010 . Stockton provides the play - by - play commentary for " Madden NFL Fever 2000 " alongside Matt Millen . Personal . Stockton was married to sportscaster Lesley Visser from 1983 to 2010 . Visser and Stockton met at the sixth game of the 1975 World Series , where Stockton ( as previously mentioned ) called Carlton Fisk ' s iconic home run for NBC and Visser was covering for " The Boston Globe " . Stockton and Visser were divorced .