ESPN's Wednesday Night Baseball broadcasters on whom they most enjoyed listening to growing up.

Dave Barnett: "Gene Elston. I discovered the Elston-Loel Passe-Harry Kalas Astros broadcasts purely out of boredom at age 8 while battling tonsillitis, with only my dad's transistor radio for entertainment. One night while flipping the dial I happened upon baseball emanating from the year-old Astrodome, with Gene conveying the space-age quality of his surroundings while making the still uncompetitive 'Stros sound entertaining. Without a trace of hype, he made you want to keep coming back night after night. Within a week he had transformed me from non-fan to obsessed Astro nut. Within a month I wanted to be him. Thirty-seven years later, I still do."

	Harry Caray was as much a part of the Cubs as the ivy at Wrigley.

Bob Carpenter: "I grew up listening to the Cardinals with Harry Caray and Jack Buck on the powerful KMOX. Harry was the No. 1 guy and his style was one that came right through the radio dial, grabbing you and taking you on a wild ride when the Cardinals were doing well, and you could feel how crushed he was when things weren't so good. After Harry left, Jack took over and it was completely different, as Jack used fewer words, more pauses, then excitement when it was necessary. To Cardinal fans, they were both as big as the game, each with a different style, but legendary in their own right."

Dave O'Brien: "I grew up in New England, listening to Red Sox games on radio and TV -- that was the late Ned Martin and Jim Woods, a terrific radio duo, and later Ken Coleman, who sounded like Fenway Park. And still later, a young kid named Jon Miller came to Boston and we hoped for rain delays -- because that gave Jon the chance to tell stories in the voices of Vin Scully, Harry Caray and others, which was hilarious."

Dan Shulman: "I've always had a soft spot for Harry Kalas ... to hear him say, "the 2-2 pitch to Mickey Morandini", or to Lenny Dykstra, brings back great memories. The people of Philadelphia have indeed been privileged to listen to Harry for so many years."

Gary Thorne: "Curt Gowdy was my favorite summer voice, wafting across a Maine lake on a summer night covering the Red Sox. As with the Sox, he was a piece of life's fabric for a Sox fan in New England."

Mark Simon is a researcher for ESPN's Major League Baseball broadcasts. He can be contacted at Mark.A.Simon@espn.com