​Baseball’s soundtrack of summer has always depended on the voices in the booth as much as the players on the field. The right call can turn a routine summer night into a memory that lives in a fan base forever.As the 2026 MLB season reaches the unofficial halfway mark with this week’s All-Star Game and turns toward the stretch run, it’s a good time to reflect on the game’s most memorable voices.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMORE: Ranking the 13 most memorable moments in MLB All-Star Game historyThis list of the 15 best baseball announcers of all time leans on impact, longevity, big moments and, just as important, how they sounded sitting in the car or on the couch in July when nothing much was happening.These are the voices that defined how the sport sounds.A Hall of Fame player with the New York Yankees, Phil Rizzuto moved right from the playing field to the broadcast booth. His idiosyncratic, conversational style played well in the Big Apple for 40 years before he retired in 1996.Who can forget Rizzuto’s signature phrase, “Holy cow!” And, yes, that’s him providing the play-by-play of a young man “rounding the bases” in the Meat Loaf song “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBob Costas famously got his start in broadcasting with the ABA’s St. Louis Spirits when he was just 22 years old. But baseball was his first love, and it showed. It wasn’t long before Costas got the “Game of the Week” job alongside Tony Kubek.Costas’ encyclopedic knowledge of the game and humor formed a perfect mix for baseball broadcasts on television. He went on to broadcast several World Series and league championship series, both as a play-by-play man and pregame host.The winner of 29 Emmy awards for his work in sports, news and entertainment, Costas still pops up on MLB Network as the host of documentaries.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJerry Coleman’s path to the booth ran through the field and military service, and he brought that perspective to decades of San Diego Padres broadcasts. He was known for good-natured malapropisms and slightly scrambled calls that fans came to love, as well as for a catchphrase that lived on in San Diego sports culture.Coleman’s long-running “Oh, Doctor!” exclamation after big plays helped define Padres baseball on radio for multiple generations of fans in Southern California.Behind the quirks, Coleman knew the game and never faked his way through a sequence. His style is a reminder that perfection is not the point; connection is.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHarry Kalas’ deep, rolling baritone became inseparable from the Philadelphia Phillies. His “Outta here!” home run call filled summers in the Delaware Valley, and his work on NFL Films projects gave him a second life as a legendary narrator in another sport.For Phillies fans, Kalas provided constancy through lean years and eventual championships, including the 2008 World Seri