with his national work for CBS Radio. In 1985 and , CBS Radio designated the fifth inning of each Series game as a "Home Team Inning." A local announcer for the visiting team would appear on the network's broadcast in the top of the fifth, with the home team announcer doing so in the bottom of the fifth. In 1986, CBS Radio used Rick Dempsey as a reporter. Locally, the series was called on WHN-AM in New York by Bob Murphy and Gary Thorne, and on WPLM-FM in Boston by Ken Coleman and Joe Castiglione. Jack Buck and Bill White provided commentary for the 1988 World Series for CBS Radio. It was White's last World Series as a broadcaster, as he left broadcasting to become President of the National League following the final game. This was Buck's call of Kirk Gibson's game-winning home run off of Dennis Eckersley in Game 1. It begins here with Buck speculating on what might happen if Gibson manages to reach base: On October 17, , CBS Radio commentators Jack Buck, Johnny Bench and John Rooney were on hand at San Francisco's Candlestick Park for Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. At 5:04 p.m. local time, the Loma Prieta earthquake hit (and subsequently caused a ten-day delay for the World Series). Unlike ABC-Television (with Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver calling the action on the TV side), CBS Radio was in a commercial break when the earthquake struck. After the earthquake hit, Jack Buck told the listening audience, "I must say about Johnny Bench, folks, if he moved that fast when he played, he would have never hit into a double play. I never saw anybody move that fast in my life." This was Buck's seventh and last World Series call for CBS Radio, as he moved to CBS' television coverage of baseball the following year. Bench continued to call the World Series on radio through 1993 as Vin Scully's color man. Locally, the 1989 World Series was broadcast by KSFO-AM in San Francisco with Bill King, Lon Simmons and Ray Fosse, and by KNBR in San Francisco with Hank Greenwald and Ron Fairly. 1970s Notes When CBS Radio got the contract from NBC Radio in , they continued the practice of having the local announcers for the visiting teams do the play-by-play for each World