You may have heard that old saying “Find a job that you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
If that’s true, Jon Miller has never “worked” a day in his life. Now of course he is one of the hardest working broadcasters in all of sports, but it’s a job he has literally loved since he was a child.
Picture this: the young Jon Miller sitting In the stands at Candlestick Park in San Francisco watching the Giants play, and glancing up at the pressbox, watching the broadcasters do what they do.
He was so inspired that later at home he would recreate baseball games and tape record the play by play, complete with audience sounds and even commercials.
He broke into actual broadcasting in the early 1970s. And for over 50 years now he has been doing what he loves.
In 1998 Jon Miller wrote a book called Confessions of a Baseball Purist. His publisher put him out on a book tour just as spring training was getting underway, and he carved out a few minutes to speak with me.
And what you’re about to hear is an interesting snapshot of Major League Baseball 27 years ago, so the names will bring back memories, and some of the concepts may now seem a little quaint.. And oh yes, this was before Barry Bonds.
So here now, from 1998, Jon Miller.
Jon Miller turned 74 a couple of weeks ago. He lives near San Francisco.