Greg Schulte is an American sportscaster, and is best known as the radio

play-by-play In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was ...

voice of the

Arizona Diamondbacks The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially known as the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The f ...

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team, a position he has held since the team's inaugural season in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. Schulte's nickname is "The Gub'nuh" (like "The Governor" with an exaggerated English accent). He is known for his unique home run call, "Deep drive..warning track..wall..you can touch 'em all (player's name). Schulte's voice will forever be linked with one of baseball's greatest moments as he delivered the call of Luis Gonzalez's ninth-inning single to win Game 7 of the

2001 World Series The 2001 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2001 season. The 97th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Arizona Diamondbacks and the three-t ...

. Schulte called his 3,000th Diamondbacks game on April 19, 2017. Schulte also covered the

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for many years, where he first produced the broadcasts, and later served as a color commentator to Al McCoy. Schulte was the original pre-game and post-game host for the

Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, and play t ...

References

External links

Team website

Extension through 2011
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schulte, Greg Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American radio sports announcers Arizona Cardinals announcers Arizona Diamondbacks announcers College basketball announcers in the United States Major League Baseball broadcasters National Basketball Association broadcasters National Football League announcers Phoenix Suns announcers