Padres Voice Dick Enberg Bids Farewell

Dick Enberg has wrapped-up up his seven-year run as the Padres' main television voice. His final home broadcast was Thursday night at Petco Park. His final season concluded Sunday in Phoenix.

While baseball is but one part of his sterling resume, Enberg's involvement in the sport at the major league level dates to the 1960s.

The Sporting News reports that fragmented half-century isn't the 67 continuous years Vin Scully has spent with the Dodgers, but Enberg, 81, deserves recognition for his diamond work, too.

Scully did his part during a pregame video salute Thursday night: "Dick has done every sport imaginable, and, more importantly, he has done them perfectly. I don't mean pretty good, or good, or very good, I mean perfectly," he said.

"Wherever I am, if your name comes up, I will say from my heart, 'As good as they come,'" Scully concluded.

Scully knows of what he speaks. Enberg was the lead national voice on NFL, college basketball and Grand Slam tennis broadcasts for decades, primarily on NBC. He chronicled UCLA's men's basketball dynasty.

Enberg joined Scully in the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame last year.