Broadcasting Career
Following his retirement as a player, Kell worked as a play-by-play announcer for the Orioles (1957), CBS television (1958), and the Tigers (1959–1963, 1965–1996). Kell also helped call the 1959 National League tie-breaker series for ABC television along with Bud Blattner, the 1962 National League tie-breaker series for NBC television along with Bob Wolff, the 1962 World Series for NBC Radio along with Joe Garagiola, and Games 3-5 of the 1968 World Series (for which the Tigers were the home team) for NBC television along with Curt Gowdy.
From 1975 until his retirement from broadcasting, Kell was joined on Tiger telecasts by Al Kaline as color commentator. After the Tigers' World Series win in 1984, Kell remarked, "If we get a little pitching out of Wilcox, this team could do it again." The Tigers got very little pitching out of the aging Milt Wilcox after 1984 and did not return to the fall classic until 2006.
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