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Published: June 12, 2009
Voice of Rangers: Eric Nadel’s streak comes to end
Mel Bracht
After broadcasting 3,176 consecutive Texas Rangers games over a 20-year span, Eric Nadel admitted it has been strange to be watching and listening to the Rangers broadcasts at home while recovering from retinal surgery.

"It was weird, really weird,” Nadel said.

Nadel, 58, who broadcast Oklahoma City Blazers games for the 1975-76 season, started a new streak Thursday night when he returned to the b...

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