Jon Miller, raised in the San Francisco Bay area, is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. He is currently employed as a play-by-play announcer by the San Francisco Giants and ESPN. He received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. After graduating from Hayward High School in 1969, Miller commuted across the bay to take broadcasting classes at the College of San Mateo. He began his broadcasting career at the college's FM radio station and UHF-PBS TV station, which reached much of the Bay Area. His first over the air baseball broadcasts were from CSM games. Jon Miller's first network exposure came in 1976, when he was selected by CBS-TV to broadcast the NASL Championship Game. From 1974 to1976, Miller did play-by-play for the Washington Diplomats of the NASL. He also announced the Soccer Game of the Week for nationally-syndicated TVS. He eventually signed a contract with the Orioles and remained their primary announcer through 1996. Since 1990 he has done national television and radio broadcasts of regular-season and postseason games for ESPN, most prominently alongside Hall of Famer Joe Morgan on the network's Sunday Night Baseball telecasts.
From the description of Confessions of a baseball purist : manuscript 1998. c.1998. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 666867811
