Dick Enberg, veteran sportscaster, dies at 82.

Dick Enberg, the sportscaster known for his warm voice and signature expression “Oh, my!” when beholding a game-winning home run or a brilliant volley at Wimbledon, died Thursday at his home in the San Diego enclave of La Jolla.

He was 82.

Few sportscasters were as versatile or as educated as Enberg, who earned a doctorate in health science at Indiana University. Working, in succession, for NBC, CBS and ESPN, he called Super Bowls, baseball and basketball games, Olympic events, golf and tennis tournaments, and boxing matches.

By 2015, he had winnowed his once-frenetic network schedule to calling only San Diego Padres games.

“On one hand, I don’t want to give it up,” he told The San Diego Union-Tribune near the end of his next-to-last season with the Padres. “My dream was to die in a booth. I’d like to keep going until my head hits the table and I say, ‘The Padres win the World Series.’ And then, on the other hand, it’s an old cliché, but the guy on his deathbed has never said, ‘I wished I’d worked more in my life,’ and it kept resonating with me.”

Enberg took a circuitous route to sports. While attending Central Michigan University, he sought a job as a custodian at the campus radio station. During the job interview, the station manager noticed that Enberg had a good voice and hired him to be a disc jockey. Several weeks later, he was the sports director. And later, while earning a master’s degree and then a doctorate in health science at Indiana University, he began calling the Hoosiers’ football and basketball games.

The bigger assignments came during the mid-to-late 1960s: UCLA on television, the Los Angeles Rams on radio and the California Angels on TV. Enberg began using his signature expression, “Oh, my” — borrowed from his mother — during the broadcast of an Indiana basketball game when he was a student.

“One night when the Hoosiers were on an up-tempo roll, it just came out of my mouth in one loud burst — ‘OOOOOOOHHHHHH MY!,’” he wrote, with Jim Perry, in his 2004 autobiography, appropriately titled Oh My! “It felt like it capped an exciting moment.” NBC hired him in 1975.

Don Ohlmeyer, the former executive producer at NBC Sports who died this year, said that Enberg did more than pepper his play-by-play with his trademark expression.

“He’s fantastic at being able to put an event in its historical context,” Ohlmeyer told the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame’s website. “For an event like Wimbledon, there was always that air of respect in his voice without in any way being obsequious, and that’s a tough thing to pull off.”

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