About me
Mike Krukow will enter his 35th season in the television booth, and his 31st full season on the radio side in 2025. A 13-time Emmy award winner, Krukow is the broadcast team’s color analyst on NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Bay Area telecasts, and on KNBR Radio broadcasts. Krukow was one of the finalists for the 2025, 2024 and 2017 Ford C. Frick Award for baseball broadcasting excellence. Krukow and his NBCSBA broadcast partner, Duane Kuiper, were both named as one of 10 finalists on the 2025 and 2024 Frick Award ballot. He was named California’s 2023, 2017 and 2015 Sportscaster of the Year, as selected by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA). The former big league pitcher has received 13 local Emmy awards: On-Camera talent (7); Sports Live Broadcast (2); Sporting Event/Game-Live (2); Arts/Entertainment Program/Special (1); and Executive Producer Baseball Ballet (1). In 2021, he was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Krukow’s playing career in the Major Leagues spanned 14 years and three teams: the Chicago Cubs (1976-81), Philadelphia Phillies (1982) and San Francisco Giants (1983-89), where his enthusiasm both on and off the field made him a fan favorite. “Kruk”, named as the starting right-handed pitcher to the 1980’s Giants All-Decade Team in a vote by Bay Area media in 1999, is noted for his deep knowledge of the game and tremendous sense of humor. A 20-game winner for the Giants in 1986, Krukow retired after the 1989 season with a 124-117 career record and a 3.90 ERA. In 2008, Kruk was honored as a member of the inaugural class of Giants alumni with a plaque in the Giants Wall of Fame which lines the wall outside of Oracle Park. Krukow’s scorecard from Tim Lincecum’s no hitter in 2014 is displayed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Krukow supports Canine Guardians (www.canineguardians.org), a non-profit organization that provides trained service dogs to assist and enrich the daily lives of wounded veterans with PTSD, diabetics, children with cancer and others with disabilities. Krukow, alongside his NBCSBA partner, Duane Kuiper, served as an ambassador for the 2023 UTAC (Until There’s A Cure) campaign. Krukow resides in Reno, NV with his wife, Jennifer. The couple has five children, Jarek (married to Siobhan O’Neill), Baker (married to Celina Roberge), Tessa, Chase (married to Alix Roe) and Weston, three grandsons, Coen, Max and Harper, and two granddaughters, Reagan and Sailor Lucille.