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'Oh, my!' Enberg says 2016 will be final year in Padres booth

Published Sep. 23, 2015 10:53 p.m. ET

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SAN DIEGO — Hall of Fame broadcaster Dick Enberg says 2016 will be his final season as the primary play-by-play television voice of the San Diego Padres.

The 80-year-old Enberg made the announcement just before the Padres played the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night. He has been with the Padres since 2010.

“In culminating 60 years of sports broadcasting, it has been a tremendous thrill to be the TV voice of my hometown San Diego Padres, and I’m tremendously excited that I will have a continuing TV role through the 2016 season, an All-Star Game year for San Diego,” Enberg said in a release. “Our family is sincerely grateful to Padres ownership, Ron Fowler and Peter and Tom Seidler, and CEO Mike Dee for providing the opportunity for an extension through 2016. While I have decided that 2016 will be my last as the primary play-by-play announcer, I will always be a Padre, and look forward to a continuing role.

“Ultimately, with high hopes I’ll be one of the many in line that will someday soon embrace a World Series championship in San Diego.”

Enberg, who began his broadcasting career as the voice of the Angels, UCLA basketball and the LA Rams in 1969, received the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award this summer. He also has received the Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Gowdy Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Famed for his exclamation of "Oh, my!" Enberg has been calling major-league games in Southern California for nearly 20 seasons, split by stints as one of the most recognizable voices on NBC and CBS.

Enberg, who joined the Padres in 2010 as the play-by-play announcer, has called 42 NFL seasons, 10 Super Bowls, 28 Wimbledons, nine Rose Bowls and four Olympic Games. He has also broadcast for the NBA, the other three tennis majors, NCAA football and basketball, the Masters, the U.S. Open Golf Championship, the PGA Championship and boxing.

Enberg, who has won 14 Emmys and nine Sportscaster of the Year awards, recently cut back on his road schedule for the Padres. 

"Inarguably, Dick is the greatest storyteller the sports world has ever known, and we have been fortunate to have heard his legendary voice and signature calls on our Padres telecasts since 2010," Padres president Dee released in a statement. “We look forward to his return in 2016, and know that after seven seasons in the booth at Petco Park, Dick will forever be part of the Padres family.”

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