Dick Enberg Makes Way to Padres' Booth

If there has been a major sporting event in the United States over the last 40 years or so, odds are that Dick Enberg has covered it at some point. Be it a Super Bowl, March Madness, Wimbledon or the Olympics, Enberg has been there. Now it seems that he'll be returning to doing play-by-play for a baseball game for the first time since working the booth for the California Angels in 1985.

The San Diego Padres are expected to announce that Enberg will be hired to do play-by-play for the team starting in 2010. The deal has not been officially announced yet, but the team is expected to have a press conference on Thursday at Petco Park.

It's believed that Enberg, who currently works for CBS Sports, will call about 120 games next season as part of the Padres television team.

Enberg, who will turn 75 on Jan. 9, lives in nearby La Jolla.

Prior to his one-year return to the Angels in 1985, Enberg spent 10 years doing play-by-play for the Angels from 1969-78, and that was the last time he exclusively worked for a major league team. He did have two other chances to call baseball games after his work with the Angels, as he was originally told by NBC that he would be covering the 1982 World Series, but was then replaced by Vin Scully and relegated to studio work.

In 1994 he was picked again by NBC to do play-by-play for the short-lived Baseball Network, but then that whole player's strike squashed that venture before it ever got off the ground.

Along with being one of the most recognizable voices to sports fans throughout the country, Enberg has also won 14 Emmy Awards and been named Sportscaster of the Year nine times.