Jim Simpson

Jim Simpson (December 20, 1927 – January 13, 2016) was an American sportscaster. He worked for NBC Sports and later ESPN.  He called Baltimore Orioles local telecasts in 1988.  In 1997, he won the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000 he was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.

For NBC: he called
1966 World Cup
Super Bowl I 
American Football League
National Football League
College Basketball
College Football/Notre Dame Football
National Hockey League
Tennis
Major League Baseball
Golf

For ESPN, Simpson called:
College football
College basketball
United States Football League
College baseball
National Basketball Association

References

More reading
Voices of the Game by Curt Smith (Diamond Communications, Inc. 1987) 
Bud Wilkinson: An Intimate Portrait of an American Legend by Jay Wilkinson and Gretchen Hirsch (Sagamore Publishing 1994) 
Living a Dream by Dick Vitale (Sports Publishing 2003) 

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Category:Tennis broadcasters
Category:Golf broadcasters
Category:National Football League broadcasters
Category:Major League Baseball broadcasters
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Category:National Hockey League broadcasters
Category:National Basketball Association broadcasters
Category:2016 deaths
Category:1927 births