Pirates’ Announcer in Intensive Care

PITTSBURGH — Veteran broadcaster Bob Prince, who returned to the Pittsburgh Pirates’ radio team earlier this month, was moved into intensive care Wednesday due to “sudden complications,” officials said.

Prince, 68, had been readmitted to Eye and Ear Hospital on Sunday, a month after undergoing surgery for cancer.

Rick Starr, general manager for Pittsburgh’s KDKA-AM, said Prince was moved into the hospital’s intensive care unit because of the possibility of dehydration and pneumonia.

“His doctors are still hopeful of a recovery,” Starr said.

He had undergone 12 radiation treatments, which were discontinued during his recent hospitalization.

Prince returned to the Pirates’ radio broadcast team for the first time in 10 years on May 3.

KDKA officials said earlier this week that they don’t know when Prince will return to work.

Prince, a play-by-play announcer for nearly three decades, was fired in 1975 after disagreements with executives of Westinghouse Broadcasting, which owns KDKA.