Al Michaels initially joined ABC as the back-up announcer on Monday Night Baseball in 1976….and was promoted to the network on a full-time basis the following year…..becoming ABC’s lead announcer replacing Keith Jackson in 1983. Over the next three decades, Michaels covered a wide variety of sports for ABC….to include Major League Baseball….as seen in this video herewith as he introduces Game 3 of the 1985 World Series….college football….college basketball….ice hockey….track and field events….horse racing….golf….boxing, such as the 1985 Marvin Hagler verses Thomas Hearns fight….figure skating…. road cycling….and many events of the Olympic Games….as well as the Olympic trials.
In this video, Al Michaels provides the introduction to Game 3 of the 1985 World Series between the St Louis Cardinals verses the Kansas City Royals….in a series that was known as The IH 70 Series…. because Interstate 70 is the highway that connects these two neighboring cities.
