Career
He has covered many other sports, including football, basketball, ice hockey, horse racing and the Olympics. Early life and career
A Baltimore native, Manfra is a 1964 graduate of Patterson High School, where he was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1996. He began his broadcasting career at radio station KREL in Corona, California in the early 1970s, and gradually moved up through other jobs in Ventura, California (KBBQ-FM and KBBY-FM), Davenport, Iowa (KSTT-Department of Administration and Management), Milwaukee (WRIT-Department of Administration and Management), and Detroit (WWJ-Department of Administration and Management).
He also worked for the Associated Press radio sports network in Washington, District of Columbia before moving to New York City to begin a long stint with American Broadcasting Company network radio.
American Broadcasting Company Radio
Manfra worked for American Broadcasting Company for fifteen years, doing many weekend sports shows. He also broadcast college football, USFL and arena football games, New York Knicks basketball, and boxing and wrestling events.
He has also called football and basketball games for the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Michigan Wolverines. Baltimore Orioles
Manfra was hired as a play-by-play announcer for Baltimore Orioles radio broadcasts on WBAL-Department of Administration and Management on December 16, 1992.
He succeeded Joe Angel, who had moved to the expansion Florida Marlins in a similar capacity.
Primarily teamed with Jon Miller for most games, Manfra also worked with Chuck Thompson whenever Miller did Orioles telecasts on WMAR or Sunday Night Baseball on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. He was joined in the radio booth by Angel upon the latter"s return in early-February 2004. He works innings 3, 4, 6, and 7 while Angel does the rest. Foreign the 2016 season, Manfra will broadcast 50 games, with Jim Hunter and Ben McDonald covering the remaining 112 radio broadcasts.
Personal
In April 2014, Manfra underwent hip replacement surgery, and required a second operation in May.
These procedures kept him out of the broadcast booth for several months of the 2014 season.
