Bob Carpenter (sportscaster)

Bob Carpenter
Carpenter in 2011
Born	1953
Sports commentary career
Team(s)	Washington Nationals
Sports	Baseball

Bob Carpenter (born 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a long-time sportscaster and current television play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals on MASN. He attended William Cullen McBride High School in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bob Carpenter has been the Washington Nationals TV broadcaster since 2006.

Carpenter served two stints calling television broadcasts for the St. Louis Cardinals, and also spent 16 seasons as a baseball announcer with ESPN, 18 seasons overall with the network, also covering soccer, college baseball, basketball and football and minor league baseball in addition to the major leagues. He also served as a team broadcaster for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers.

From 1978 until 1984, Carpenter called soccer games for the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League and the St. Louis Steamers of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He announced 2 World Cups for ESPN; 1982 with Bob Ley and 1994 (10 games) with Seamus Malin and Clive Charles.

In his first major league season, 1984, Carpenter developed his own baseball scorebook. He started marketing it in 1995, and "Bob Carpenter's Scorebook" is now used by many college, major and minor league announcers. It is the most widely used scorebook in the nation by fans and broadcasters.

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