Race for the Pennant

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Race for the Pennant
Race for the Pennant on HBO
Format	Sports
Country of origin	USA
Broadcast
Original channel	Home Box Office (HBO)
Original run	1978 – 1992

Race for the Pennant is a weekly sports show that focused on Major League Baseball and premiered on Home Box Office (HBO) in 1978. It was hosted by Len Berman, Tim McCarver, Barry Tompkins, Bob Gibson, Maury Wills ^[1] and others. The series ended in 1992.^[2]

See also [edit]

List of programs broadcast by HBO

References [edit]

^ NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspaper articles online
^ 1992 HBO Program Guide

External links [edit]

Race for the Pennant at the Internet Movie Database

Major League Baseball on national television

Contract history

Broadcast partners

ABC
CBS
DuMont
Fox
NBC

Pay television carriers

ESPN
Fox Sports 1^(2014-)
TBS
USA

MLB owned & operated entities

General media

Local broadcasters

American broadcasters	Braves TBS Baseball Kiner's Korner Marlins Television Network Royals Sports Television Network SNY YES Network

Canadian broadcasters	Rogers Sportsnet Blue Jays Baseball TSN

News television series

Specialty programming

Reality television series	The Franchise

Rebroadcasts	ESPN Classic Mets Classics Yankees Classics

Broadcasters by event

International coverage

Landmark events

Miscellaneous

v t e HBO Network programming (Series)

1970s debuts	Inside the NFL On Location Race for the Pennant Standing Room Only ("Vanities") Tennis on HBO Time Was

1980s debuts	1st & Ten America Undercover ("Autopsy", "Real Sex" and "Taxicab Confessions") Babar Braingames Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Brown Fraggle Rock The Hitchhiker The Kids in the Hall Maximum Security Not Necessarily the News One Night Stand Philip Marlowe, Private Eye Rainbow Fish The Ghost of Faffner Hall The Ray Bradbury Theater The Storyteller Tales from the Crypt Video Jukebox

1990s debuts	The Adventures of Tintin Arliss The Chris Rock Show Crashbox Def Comedy Jam Dennis Miller Live Dream On Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child Hotel Room The Larry Sanders Show Lifestories: Families in Crisis A Little Curious The Little Lulu Show Mokku of the Oak Tree Mr. Show The Neverending Story Oz Perversions of Science Pippi Longstocking Reverb Sex and the City The Sopranos Spicy City Tenacious D Todd McFarlane's Spawn Tracey Takes On...

2000s debuts	Da Ali G Show Alice Animated Tales of the World Big Love Bored to Death Capadocia Carnivàle Cathouse: The Series Classical Baby The Comeback Costas Now Deadwood Def Poetry Eastbound & Down Entourage Extras Flight of the Conchords G String Divas George and Martha Harold and the Purple Crayon Hung I Spy In Treatment Joe Buck Live John from Cincinnati K Street KO Nation Little Britain USA Lucky Louie Mandrake The Mind of the Married Man The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency On the Record with Bob Costas Pornucopia Project Greenlight Rome Six Feet Under Stuart Little: The Animated Series Summer Heights High Tales from the Neverending Story Tell Me You Love Me Tourgasm Unscripted The Life & Times of Tim The Wire

2010s debuts	Angry Boys Enlightened Funny or Die Presents How to Make It in America Luck The Ricky Gervais Show The Yard

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