Legendary broadcaster Dick Enberg announced Wednesday that the 2016 baseball season will be his last as the primary play-by-play announcer of the Padres.
Enberg has been calling games for the Padres since the beginning of the 2010 season. He also worked decades with the peacock network covering various sports from baseball and golf to college basketball and football.
While working on The NFL on NBC, Enberg called 8 Super Bowls.
Enberg received the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award this summer.
He also has received the Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Gowdy Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Enberg began his full-time sportscasting career in Los Angeles working for KTLA television covering UCLA Bruins basketball and later LA Rams and California Angels games over the radio.
After every Angels victory, he would wrap up his broadcast with, "And the halo shines tonight."
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60 years after starting his career, Enberg is still one of the deans in sports broadcasting and well-respected throughout the industry.
The latest example of that was on the Fox Sports San Diego broadcast where co-workers complimented Enberg on his announcement on the air before Wednesday’s Padres-Giants game.
