Local announcer comes home to call Preakness for NBC
Larry Collmus returns to Pimlico after long layoff
Posted: 05/18/2011
Larry Collmus knows Pimlico very well. Having grown up in the area and graduating from Mount St. Joseph's High School and later Loyola College, he knows Baltimore, too.
And now, for the first time in a quarter century, Larry is coming home to call a race at his hometown course.
He'll have the call for NBC's coverage of the 136th Preakness Stakes. Collmus inherited the gig from Tom Durkin, who called Triple Crown races for NBC for 13 years.
His first job was calling the Kentucky Derby, which Collmus says helps make the realization that he's coming home to call the Preakness all the more real.
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