World Series Voices And Princeton

The World Series matchup of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies brings together a pair of old friends, one with overwhelming connections to Princeton football and basketball and the other with at least some experience with the Tigers.

Tom McCarthy is one of the voices of the Phillies. Princeton fans remember McCarthy from his many years of broadcasting Princeton football and basketball, including his famous calls from the win over UCLA in the 1996 NCAA tournament. McCarthy has gone from Princeton to be the voice of the Phillies and then the New York Mets and now back to the Phils. McCarthy grew up a Mets fan, yet he finds himself in the World Series with the Phillies instead. McCarthy also does college football and basketball games on radio and TV and has been a national voice on Fox TV's baseball game of the week.

McCarthy's first big job in radio was as one of the announcers for the Trenton Thunder in the infancy of the Double-A team that has gone from being the affiliate of the Tigers to the Red Sox and finally to the Yankees. One of his first partners in Trenton was Andy Freed, who is now in his fourth year as the radio play-by-play man for the Rays. Freed, when he was in Trenton and later with the Pawtucket Red Sox, filled in several times for Princeton basketball and football.