1. Dewayne Staats was born on August 8,1952 and is an American sports broadcaster who has been the television play-by-play commentator for the Tampa Bay Rays since their inception in 1998.
10 Facts About Dewayne Staats
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Dewayne Staats is currently teamed with color commentator Brian Anderson.
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Dewayne Staats regularly listened to the St Louis Cardinals baseball broadcasts, featuring Harry Caray and Jack Buck.
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Dewayne Staats graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1975 with a degree in Mass Communications.
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Dewayne Staats 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 Louis.
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Dewayne Staats began announcing professional baseball with the Oklahoma City 89ers while still a student at SIUE.
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Dewayne Staats has since remarried to the former Carla Berry.
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Dewayne 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.
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Dewayne Staats announced college football and college basketball games during his tenure at ESPN.
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Dewayne Staats became a member of the SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame in 2006 and of the SIUE Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.