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Glen Kuiper is set to return to a major league broadcast booth nearly three years after his dismissal from the Oakland A’s, as the veteran play-by-play voice will handle radio duties for the San Francisco Giants during Tuesday’s exhibition matchup against Team USA at Scottsdale Stadium, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Kuiper, who spent more than 15 seasons as the television voice of the A’s before the organization fired him in May 2023 for uttering a racial slur during a pregame broadcast, will call the Giants’ spring exhibition on radio in what amounts to his most visible assignment since the incident that abruptly halted his tenure in Oakland.
The Chronicle reported that Kuiper could also serve as a fill-in option on regular-season Giants radio broadcasts, signaling that the club appears open to reintegrating the longtime broadcaster into its on-air rotation.
The incident that led to Kuiper’s dismissal unfolded during a pregame show when he referenced a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City and appeared to stumble over the word “Negro,” with the mispronunciation coming across on air as a racial slur.
Kuiper immediately expressed regret and later maintained that the comment was accidental, yet the A’s suspended him indefinitely the following day and ultimately terminated his contract roughly two weeks later.
In a statement released after his firing, Kuiper apologized and questioned whether a single mistake should outweigh two decades of work, writing that he would “always have a hard time understanding how one mistake in a 20-year broadcasting career is cause for termination,” while also expressing confidence that future opportunities would emerge.
Kuiper has remained active through digital projects and live events rather than traditional team broadcasts. Over the past year, he has hosted postgame shows at Oracle Park’s Gotham Club alongside his brother, longtime Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper, and he has produced content through a YouTube-based platform titled “The Glen Kuiper Show,” where he has continued to analyze the Giants and Major League Baseball.
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