NBC'S ENBERG LAMENTS LOSS, OFFERS FINANCIAL HELP.Byline: Howard Beck Daily News Staff Writer Dick Enberg Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg (born January 9, 1935 in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American sportscaster. Enberg is one of the most prominent and respected play-by-play announcers in network television history, with a career spanning more than forty years. remembers weaving weaving, the art of forming a fabric by interlacing at right angles two or more sets of yarn or other material. It is one of the most ancient fundamental arts, as indicated by archaeological evidence. green Venetian blinds through a chain-link fence to create Cal State Northridge's first outfield wall in 1961. At the time, the tiny campus was known as San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. State College, and Enberg, now an NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. broadcaster, was the assistant baseball coach. With scant funding from the administration, Enberg recalls, the team did its own maintenance on the field, right down to building a fence and mowing mow 1 n. 1. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored. 2. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn. the infield. Thirty-six years later, Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. baseball is gone, along with men's soccer, men's volleyball and men's swimming. ``It really saddens me,'' Enberg said Wednesday, speaking from his hotel in Bethesda, Md., where he is covering the U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
``I'm very fond of history, and when you think that in 1961 we were all teaching out of huts, and there was barely a university there . . . and now it's a major university that has much to be proud of.'' That pride includes a baseball program that won two national championships in Division II and made the Division I playoffs five of the past seven years. Enberg said he would do anything to save that legacy from the budget ax. ``I'd be seriously interested - if there's some kind of campaign, I hope somebody will call me. I certainly would like to contribute my time and my money,'' he said. Enberg, who was a professor of health science at the college for four years while coaching, said he learned more about baseball during his first year under head coach Stan Charnofsky than in his entire broadcasting career. That experience served him well when he left the school in 1965 to become a local sports anchor and, later, a broadcaster for the Angels. While many former coaches and alumni are bitter with the decision to drop four sports, Enberg said he understood ``the complications'' of the budget shortfall and gender equity requirements that led to the move. ``That's the rules you have to play under today, and if the finances aren't there, you can't sacrifice the real purpose of the university, and that's to be educated,'' he said. Among the players Enberg and Charnofsky coached was Bob Hiegert, who eventually became coach and compiled 591 victories in 18 years before being hired as athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic . The baseball program's proud run is now doomed to become ``a little piece of history that probably will be quickly forgotten,'' Enberg said. ``That's what saddens me from a romantic aspect.'' Enberg, again recalling the program's beginnings, noted it survived then as an unsponsored club sport, and mused, ``Maybe this is just going to go full circle, and that's what we'll have again.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Enberg |
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