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Baltimore broadcaster · 1942–2016
Talk radio at its best, remembered.
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
Fifty years behind a microphone
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.
- Born & died
- 1942–2016October 17, 1942 – July 7, 2016
- Orioles play-by-play
- 1979–1986Called the 1979 and 1983 World Series
- The weekday slot
- 9 a.m.–NoonThe Tom Marr Show, AM 680 WCBM
- Recognition
- Heavy HundredA perennial name on the Talkers list
The career
A Baltimore voice, coast to coast
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:
Orioles play-by-play
Called Baltimore Orioles baseball on WFBR from 1979 to 1986, including the 1979 and 1983 World Series, and broadcast Orioles exhibition games from Japan.
Talk Radio 680 WCBM
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.
Reporting from the field
Broadcast from more than fifteen international locations — among them Israel, Iraq, Cuba, Scotland and Bosnia — and embedded with Coalition Forces in 2006.
Timeline
From WWDC to WCBM
The short version of a long career. The full biography sets out each stage with its sources.
- 1960
Hosts a high-school sports show on WWDC in Washington, D.C.
- 1963
Discharged from the United States Marine Corps; returns to radio.
- 1967
Joins WFBR (1300 AM) in Baltimore as news anchor and reporter, later news director.
- 1967–1975
CBS Radio News sports correspondent covering the Orioles, Colts and Bullets.
- 1979–1986
Play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles; calls the 1979 and 1983 World Series.
- 1988
Joins WCBM (680 AM), Baltimore, after the station is revived by Nick Mangione, Sr.
- 1997
Returns to WCBM on a long-term contract; syndicated weeknights on the WOR Radio Network.
- 2006
Spends three weeks embedded with Coalition Forces in Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar.
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Independent, and honest about it
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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