MARTY  REID   -   02/03/1953

an American television sportscaster who worked for ESPN from 1982 through 2013, covering motor sports for the network.  Reid had been the network's Indy Car Series lead commentator and also called select NASCAR Xfinity Series races for the network and the Indianapolis 500 for ABC. Reid is the only person to do television play-by-play for all five major North American motor sports series, NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, Trucks, Indy Car, and NHRA Drag Racing.  Reid was the lead television announcer for the NHRA on ESPN from 2001 through the 2006 season, when he took over for Todd Harris as lead Indy Car voice, and held the same position for ESPN's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events from 1998 through 2000.  Reid began his career at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio in 1975.  Among his duties were anchoring Ohio State University hockey telecasts and Columbus Clippers telecasts.  He started Marty Reid Enterprises, a video production company, in 1988. He formed the short course off-road racing series Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) in 1997 and sold it in 2005 to Jim Baldwin.  On September 29, 2013, Reid was fired from ESPN after accidentally calling Ryan Blaney's Xfinity Series win in the Kentucky 300 too early by one lap.  Reid was replaced by Allen Bestwick.

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