Fenway
10-06-2005, 11:20 AM
WSCR is taking a hard look at someone who wants back in Chicago
former Cubs announcer Dewayne Staats
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Dewayne Staats anchors the Emmy-Award winning telecast in this, his 29th season broadcasting major league baseball and his eighth with the Devil Rays. In 2003 he celebrated 4,000 major league broadcasts. Before joining the Rays, he spent three years calling play-by-play for ESPN in a variety of sports, including major league baseball and NCAA baseball, basketball and football. He began his major league play-by-play career as the radio and TV voice of the Houston Astros from 1977-84, then called radio and TV action for the Chicago Cubs from 1985-89. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees carried by the MSG-TV network from 1990-94, and spent the 1994 and 1995 seasons calling the action for The Baseball Network (ABC/NBC). Staats began his career as a sports reporter for WSIE Radio while a student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and began his baseball career as the radio voice of the Oklahoma City 89ers (1973-74). In 1975 and '76 he was sports director at KPLR-TV in St. Louis and received an Emmy nomination. A 1975 graduate of SIU-Edwardsville, Dewayne earned Distinguished Alumnus-of-the-Year honors in 1987. He and his wife, Demetra (Dee), recently deceased, have two daughters, Stephanie Wheeler (1-11-78) and Alexandra (1-11-84),and a grandson Gabriel Michael (11/19/04).
former Cubs announcer Dewayne Staats
http://tampabay.devilrays.mlb.com/images/team/broadcasters/dewayne_staats.jpg
Dewayne Staats anchors the Emmy-Award winning telecast in this, his 29th season broadcasting major league baseball and his eighth with the Devil Rays. In 2003 he celebrated 4,000 major league broadcasts. Before joining the Rays, he spent three years calling play-by-play for ESPN in a variety of sports, including major league baseball and NCAA baseball, basketball and football. He began his major league play-by-play career as the radio and TV voice of the Houston Astros from 1977-84, then called radio and TV action for the Chicago Cubs from 1985-89. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees carried by the MSG-TV network from 1990-94, and spent the 1994 and 1995 seasons calling the action for The Baseball Network (ABC/NBC). Staats began his career as a sports reporter for WSIE Radio while a student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and began his baseball career as the radio voice of the Oklahoma City 89ers (1973-74). In 1975 and '76 he was sports director at KPLR-TV in St. Louis and received an Emmy nomination. A 1975 graduate of SIU-Edwardsville, Dewayne earned Distinguished Alumnus-of-the-Year honors in 1987. He and his wife, Demetra (Dee), recently deceased, have two daughters, Stephanie Wheeler (1-11-78) and Alexandra (1-11-84),and a grandson Gabriel Michael (11/19/04).