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Baltimore broadcaster · 1942–2016
For nearly half a century Tom Marr was a Baltimore voice — the play-by-play announcer who called two World Series for the Orioles, then the weekday-morning host of Talk Radio 680 WCBM. This is an independent, sourced tribute to his life on the air.
The record at a glance
Four numbers that frame a career which began in a high-school studio in Washington and ended at the microphone at 680 WCBM in Baltimore.
The career
A Marine, a newsroom anchor, a ballpark storyteller and, for three decades, one of talk radio’s most recognizable morning hosts. A few of the milestones:
Called Baltimore Orioles baseball on WFBR from 1979 to 1986, including the 1979 and 1983 World Series, and broadcast Orioles exhibition games from Japan.
The weekday 9 a.m.–Noon voice of WCBM Baltimore and the station’s lead-in to The Rush Limbaugh Show, with a weeknight program carried on the WOR Radio Network.
Broadcast from more than fifteen international locations — among them Israel, Iraq, Cuba, Scotland and Bosnia — and embedded with Coalition Forces in 2006.
Timeline
The short version of a long career. The full biography sets out each stage with its sources.
Hosts a high-school sports show on WWDC in Washington, D.C.
Discharged from the United States Marine Corps; returns to radio.
Joins WFBR (1300 AM) in Baltimore as news anchor and reporter, later news director.
CBS Radio News sports correspondent covering the Orioles, Colts and Bullets.
Play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles; calls the 1979 and 1983 World Series.
Joins WCBM (680 AM), Baltimore, after the station is revived by Nick Mangione, Sr.
Returns to WCBM on a long-term contract; syndicated weeknights on the WOR Radio Network.
Spends three weeks embedded with Coalition Forces in Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar.
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Read the guide →About this tribute
tommarr.com is an independent memorial page. It is not affiliated with Tom Marr’s family or estate, with WCBM, or with the WOR Radio Network. Biographical details are drawn from public records, Wikipedia and Tom Marr’s own archived website, with every source listed. Where the record is silent — his birthplace, for instance — we leave it unstated rather than guess.
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