Oklahoma has introduced that former pitcher George Frazier, a World Series champion who had a virtually three-decade run as a tv broadcaster, has died at age 68.

The Denver Post reported he died Monday in Tulsa after a latest sickness.

In two seasons at Oklahoma, he performed on College World Series groups in 1975 and 1976 and posted a 12-4 profession file with eight saves and a 2.62 earned run common.

Frazier performed components of 10 Major League Baseball seasons with 5 golf equipment. He appeared within the 1981 World Series with the New York Yankees and helped the Chicago Cubs win their first division title in 1984 earlier than turning into a world champion with the Minnesota Twins in 1987. He pitched two scoreless innings for the Twins throughout Game 4 of that World Series in opposition to St. Louis. He posted a profession 4.20 ERA with 35 wins and 29 saves in 415 Major League appearances.

After that, he spent 18 years as a tv broadcaster with the Colorado Rockies.

He returned to Oklahoma in 2015 as a shade analyst on tv broadcasts by the 2023 season. Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione known as Frazier’s commentary a “witty, insightful and uniquely entertaining perspective of the game.”

Frazier typically joined radio play-by-play voice Toby Rowland on broadcasts for Oklahoma baseball video games in Tulsa and Stillwater and for Big 12 event video games in Oklahoma City.

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