Gary Thorne Biography

Gary Thorne an American famous sports executive known as the lead announcer for Baltimore Orioles games on MASN. Previously he was working with ESPN, ABC and National Hockey League, Major League Football, College Football, and Frozen Four hockey tournament. He is as well a narrator for WWE for the WQrestmania Rewind Program.

Gary Thorne Age

Thorne was born on 9 June 1948 in Bangor, Maine, U.S.A.

Gary Thorne NHL

Thorne started announcing hockey games for Augusta, Maine radio and television stations in 1977 but rose to fame in Maine broadcasting when he began calling play-by-play for the University of Maine’s hockey games for Bangor radio station WABI. As the voice of the Black Bears, he quickly became one of the most recognizable radio voices in the state.

Thorne was asked to call Maine hockey games during winter months until 1987 when the lure of doing play-by-play in the NHL became too strong for Thorne to ignore. From 1987–1993, Thorne served as the play-by-play voice of the New Jersey Devils of the NHL on SportsChannel New York.

Thorne missed several Mets games in the 1988 season due to the Devils’ playoff games. He was replaced after that Mets season by Gary Cohen. Thorne spent the following season with the Chicago White Sox. Thorne is most notable for announcing the NHL on ESPN. Thorne called the Stanley Cup Finals for ESPN from 1993–2004,

Thorne called several high school games in the Class AA Minnesota State High School League boys hockey tournament for local independent TV station KSTC-TV in March of 2014. When interviewed by The New York Times, Thorne expressed his enjoyment for being asked to announce. During the 2016-17 NHL season, Thorne called 8 NHL away games for the Los Angeles Kings, filling in for Bob Miller, who abstained from all of the Kings’ longer travels east after missing the latter part of the 2015-16 season due to health issues.

Gary Thorne Mets

Thorne signed a four-year contract as a radio announcer for the New York Mets in 1985. He was present alongside Bob Murphy at the Shea Stadium for the famous sixth game of the 1986 world series between Mets and Boston Red Sox. Gary was one of the first announcers to Red Sox for leaving Bill Buckner in the tenth inning of the gamer Dave Stapleton.

Gary Thorne Orioles

Gary joined Baltimore Orioles in the year 2007 as their play-by-play announcer for the Mid Atlantic Sports Network. He is best known for his Goodbye, Homerun, and Mercy signature calls which he prefers to use two RBI home run and three RBI home run rather than the standardized ones, two-run home, three-run homer. Thorne closes his Orioles broadcasts with Adieu if the Orioles lose or Adieu-Adieu if they win.

Gary Thorne Arizona State

Gary was hired by Arizona State University to teach students about his craft in the 2019 summer. Arizona had announced that the MASN announcer would teach a course as a visiting professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Gary Thorne Bowling

In the 2011-2012 season, ESPN took in Gary to replace the outgoing Rob Stone who had left without any recorded reasons.

Gary Thorne Curt Schilling

Gary the memory of Curt Schilling all famed bloody socking of 2004 MLB Playoffs said that Red Sox against Baltimore Orioles game that Boston backup catcher Doug Mirabelli admiring it was a hoax.

Gary Thorne Salary

Thorne earns an estimated annual salary of $65,000 to $119,621

Gary Thorne Net Worth

Thorne has an estimated net worth of $2.5 million

Gary Thorne Height and Weight

Gary stands tall at a height of 5 feet 9 inches or 1.8 m and weighs 149.9 lbs or 68 kg.

Gary Thorne Education

Thorne enrolled at Maine University and later earned a BS and JD and then joined Georgetown University and graduated with an LLM.

Gary Thorne Wife

Thorne information about his love life is not publicly known, this section will be updated as soon as the information is available.