Kennedy, Pope John Paul II's visit to the U.S. Jarrín also worked on international news broadcasts, including the funeral of President John F. From 2015-2020, Jarrín called games alongside his son, Jorge, with the duo forming the only father-son broadcasting team in MLB Spanish-language radio. On August 23, 2009, Jarrín once again made history and served as the play-by-play announcer in the first-ever regular-season-dedicated Spanish-language telecast of a Dodger game. From 1962-84, Jarrín called nearly 4,000 games - spanning 22 seasons - without missing a contest, before the streak was broken in 1984 when he took charge of all the Spanish-language radio coverage and production for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
He rose to become the club's primary Spanish-language broadcaster in 1973. Starting in 1965, Jarrín took the Dodgers' Spanish-language radio broadcast on the road, making every stop with the Dodgers. During his first six years with the Dodgers, Jarrín and his partner would recreate games in the studio while listening to the English radio broadcast. Jarrín was given one year to prepare to become a baseball broadcaster by William Beaton, the station manager at KWKW. Jarrín was hired as an announcer at KWKW and soon after, the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles.
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His first experience with baseball was watching the Dodgers on a televised broadcast of the 1955 World Series against the Yankees, and he soon began attending minor league games in Los Angeles at Gilmore Field and Wrigley Field to learn the game. At the time, he had never seen a baseball game. Following his graduation, Jarrín hoped to continue his broadcasting career in the United States, arriving on June 24, 1955. The Quito, Ecuador native began working for HCJB in his home country when he was 16 years old and went on to become the announcer for the National Congress of Ecuador, while studying philosophy, letters, journalism and broadcasting at Central University of Ecuador in Quito. Jarrín has called three perfect games (Sandy Koufax in 1965, Tom Browning in 1988 and Dennis Martinez in 1991) and 22 no-hitters, 30 World Series and 30 All-Star games during his decorated career. In 2018, the Hall of Famer became just the 12th Dodger to be added to the club's Ring of Honor, joining other franchise icons in having his name permanently affixed to Dodger Stadium. Frick Award, becoming the second Spanish-language announcer to achieve the honor after Buck Canel.
In 1998, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, as the recipient of the Ford C. Jarrín, the longest-tenured broadcaster in Major League Baseball, announced his retirement on Sept. Jarrín enters his 64th and final season with the club in 2022. Jaime Jarrín, "the Spanish voice of the Dodgers" and one of the most recognizable voices in all of sports broadcasting, has been calling Dodger games since 1959.