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• #BRIAN ANDERSON BASEBALL COMMENTATOR PROFESSIONAL#

This award "recognizes a student who exhibits Staats’s passion for sports, and who demonstrates the writing, announcing and analytical skills needed to excel in the field of Sports The Dewayne Staats Award for Broadcast Journalism was established in 2008 by the Mass Communications Department at SIUE. Staats announced college football and college basketball games during his tenure at ESPN.Īs a promotion in 2006, dual talking bobblehead dolls of Staats and Joe Magrane were given away at a home game against the Seattle Mariners. Īmong the several no-hitters Staats has announced were Nolan Ryan's fifth on Septemfor the Houston Astros, one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott's on Septemfor the New York Yankees, and Matt Garza on Jfor the Tampa Bay Rays. Staats celebrated his 30th season as a Major League Baseball announcer in 2006, and on June 22, 2010, he called his 5000th major league game. With the Cubs, Staats called the first MLB night game in Wrigley Field history with Steve Stone on August 8, 1988, although the game was canceled due to rain. Staats has three grandchildren, Gabriel, Zachary, and Evie. Stephanie is married to former MLB relief pitcher Dan Wheeler, who played with the Rays (the team Staats commentates for) from 1999-2001 and from 2007-2010. He has since remarried to the former Carla Berry. Staats' first wife, Dee, died in 2005 after a long battle with cancer. Louis (1975–76), then he worked for the Houston Astros (1977–84), Chicago Cubs (1985–89), New York Yankees (1990–94), and ESPN (1995–97) before joining the Rays in their 1998 inaugural season. After graduation, he was sports director at KPLR-TV in St.

#BRIAN ANDERSON BASEBALL COMMENTATOR PROFESSIONAL#

Staats began announcing professional baseball with the Oklahoma City 89ers (1973–74) while still a student at SIUE. He began his broadcasting career reporting sports on WSIE, the SIUE radio station as an announcer for high school sports on several of the nearby small town radio stations such as WOKZ in Alton, Illinois and as an intern at KMOX in St. He graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) in 1975 with a degree in Mass Communications.

Louis Cardinals baseball broadcasts, featuring Harry Caray and Jack Buck.

Staats has been a broadcaster for several teams over his 40+ year career. He is currently teamed with color commentator Brian Anderson. Dewayne Staats (born August 8, 1952) is a sports broadcaster who has been the television play-by-play commentator for the Tampa Bay Rays since their inception in 1998.