Don Drysdale is going home.
Drysdale will leave the White Sox television booth at the end the season and join the team with whom he made his name-the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Hall-of-Famer signed a five-year contract Monday to broadcast Dodger games on radio and TV.
”I`m going home, and that`s an awful big thing,” said Drysdale, who lives in Palm Springs, Calif. ”The Dodgers are almost a second family to me. We have a new baby, and this is going to make life a lot easier. When we`re home, we`re home.”
Drysdale will replace Jerry Doggett, who is retiring at the end of the year, and he`ll work with Vin Scully and Russ Porter.
Drysdale joined the Sox broadcast team in 1982 along with Ken ”Hawk”
Harrelson. The last two years, he has worked with Frank Messer.
He began his broadcasting career in 1970 with the Montreal Expos and also worked with the California Angels from 1973-79 before joining the Sox.
”I have nothing but good feelings for the Sox,” Drysdale said. ”Jerry
(Reinsdorf) and Eddie (Einhorn) have treated me as well as I`ve ever been treated. I just wish I could have helped out a little more.”
”Don is going home, not only to Southern California but to the Dodger organization, where he left an indelible mark on the game as a Hall of Fame pitcher,” said Einhorn. ”He`s been a tremendous asset to the Chicago White Sox, and we`re sorry to lose one of baseball`s finest broadcasters and classiest individuals.”