Steve Stone
Steve Stone was born in South Euclid, Ohio, United States on July 14th, 1947 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 76, Steve Stone biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Major league career
Stone said he was breaking the stereotype of ballplayers in his time: he was right about it.
In May 1971, Ron Fimrite mused that Stone was "a Jewish intellectual... who just might be a right-handed" (Sandy Koufax).
He was 6–8 with a 2.98 ERA in 1972. Stone was traded by the Giants with Ken Henderson to the Chicago White Sox on November 29, 1972, after suffering a sore arm.
He had a 4.24 ERA in 1973 and was fourth in the AL in strikeouts per 9 innings pitched (7.04), and eighth in hit batsman (7).
Stone was acquired by the Chicago Cubs along with Steve Swisher and Ken Frailing on December 11, 1973. Jim Kremmel was also sent by the Cubs to finish the transaction on December 18. He was 8-5-5 with a 4.14 ERA in 1974. He was 12-81 with a 3.95 ERA and pitched 214.3 innings.
He signed as a free agent with the Chicago White Sox in November 1976, after suffering a torn rotator cuff and starting cryotherapy after refusing surgery and cortisone injections.
He was 15-12 in 1977 with a 4.51 ERA in 207.1 innings. Stone gave up a home run to Cleveland Indians second baseman Duane Kuiper in 3,379 at bats during the season on August 29. He was 12–12 in 1978, when he was paid $125,000 ($519,000 today) in 212 innings.
He agreed to a four-year, $760,000 ($3,157,000 today) contract with the Baltimore Orioles in November 1978, after turning down four other bids. Stone was 11-7 in 1979 with a 3.77 ERA in 186 innings, his seventh in the league in fewer hits allowed per 9 innings pitched (8.37).
He made his best year in 1980, when the Orioles went 25–7 (.781) for the Cy Young Award and The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award, and came in 9th in the AL MVP poll. He didn't have a save until he got to the year's last start. He led the league in wins (his 25 wins set a team record) and the highest win-lost percentage, and was second in games started (37), fifth in ERA (3.23), hit batsmen (8.04), and ninth in innings pitched (250.7). He also received the American League's Month of the Month award in June 1980. In the All-Star Game that year, he also started and pitched three perfect innings.
Even though Stone knew he'd break his pitching arm, he threw up to 73 curveballs in a game at least twice this season.
"I used to try not to lose before," Stone said in 1980. "Now, when I go out, I go out to win every time, and I'm positive I am." I try to imagine myself literally walking off the mound as a winner. In my opinion, I have no negatives. As such ones start creeping in, I delete them and make it look like a blank blackboard, begging to be filled in with things like, 'The team is going to play well, is going to score some runs, I'm going to throw strikes, I'm going to win.'"
The pitcher who had been listed as 5'10" before his Cy Young season said, "It's been a long time."
Stone suffered from shoulder tendinitis in 1981, going 4-7 with a 4.60 ERA, and then retired at the age 34 due to the condition.
He is regarded as one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history. Stone ranked third in career victories (107) and strikeouts (1,065) through July 2011, behind Ken Holtzman and Sandy Koufax, and directly ahead of Jason Marquis, who came in ninth in games pitched (320), behind Barry Latman. "He gave little Jewish boys some hope," he said reminiscing about Sandy Koufax's clout as a child.
Sportscasting career (1982-present)
Stone was recruited by ABC to appear as a color commentator for their Monday Night Baseball telecasts following his retirement. Stone was usually partnered in the booth with Al Michaels and Bob Uecker.
Stone began as a color commentator for the Chicago Cubs' WGN television broadcasts in 1983, working with Hall of Fame announcer Harry Caray for 14 years. He posed for Playgirl in 1985. Stone was paired with Caray's grandson Chip Caray after Harry Caray's death in February 1998. In 2000, Stone left the pavilion due to health issues, including a case of coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) and kidney stones, and returned to the Cubs booth in 2003 and 2004.
Although Caray was recovering from a stroke at the start of the 1987 season, stone temporally took over play-by-play duties. Before Caray was well enough to return, WGN announced that guest announcers would fill in and sit alongside Stone.
Stone joined Jim Kaat for a Cubs game against the St. Louis Cardinals for CBS on August 7, 1993.
After the 2004 season, Stone declined a contract extension as the Cubs' color-man, amid controversies surrounding Cubs players who felt he was being overly critical of their results. Nevertheless, he was still a fan favorite. One of the reasons he was so popular was his ability to accurately predict what might happen in various game situations, as well as advising the audience why the tactic or pitch would be profitable prior to the performance. In a 2004 game, seconds before the batter's (Adam Dunn) hit a home run off Cubs pitcher Mike Remlinger to give the Cincinnati Reds the lead.
Stone expressed disappointment with Cubs manager Dusty Baker for not directing his players. Kent Mercker called the broadcast booth from the bullpen during a game to protest remarks made, while still facing Stone in a hotel lobby at one point. Chip Caray's praise of Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt was one of the remarks that reportedly irked Mercker. Moisés Alou, a left fielder, and Stone on a road game in 2004, and Alou denied Stone and Caray from the team charter flights, according to the article.
Stone sluggishly criticized the team on September 30, 2004 after a 12-inning loss to the Cincinnati Reds that had virtually eliminated the Cubs, right away. "This is the truth of the situation; this is] an extremely talented group of guys who want to look at all directions but not in the direction they should really look, and there are some that make excuses for what happened..." By six, seven games, this team should have won the wild-card [playoff berth]. There is no doubt about it." The remarks sparked manager Baker's departure as a Cub broadcaster the following month.
Stone was recruited by Chicago radio station WSCR to produce commentary and host a weekly talk show hosted by Terry Boers and Dan Bernstein on Mondays by Mike North, and on Thursdays by Brian Hanley and Mike Mulligan. He was also recruited by ESPN to work on one of the network's baseball telecasts.
Stone stepped in for Chicago White Sox color commentator Darrin Jackson in early August 2007, when Jackson took leave for his child's birth, which he achieved by forecasting a walk-off home run by Juan Uribe in extra innings. Stone partnered with play-by-play announcer Ted Robinson in October 2007, calling games between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for TBS. Stone was named the color commentator for White Sox radio broadcasts on WSCR AM670 The Score on March 4, 2008.
Stone began his duties on September 13, 2008, starting with the 2009 season. He loved being in the booth with Hawk Harrelson, boasting that he liked the word "Stone Pony" in his nickname. When Harrelson wasn't around, Stone also served as a stand-in play-by-play announcer. He worked with analysts Tom Paciorek or Tony Graffanino.
Stone is the White Sox television color commentator as of 2022 (since Harrelson's retirement), now alongside Jason Benetti.