Dave Van Horne
American baseball announcer (born 1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Van Horne (born August 25, 1939) is an American retired Major League Baseball broadcaster whose big-league announcing career lasted for 53 seasons. He was honoured at the National Baseball Hall of Fame as winner of the Ford C. Frick Award in 2011.
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Born | David Van Horne (1939-08-25) August 25, 1939 (age 84) Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Awards | Ford C. Frick Award (2011) |
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Induction | 2014 |
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Van Horne was the lead play-by-play announcer for the Miami Marlins Radio Network from 2001 through 2021; prior to that, he spent 32 years of his broadcasting career with the Montreal Expos, 14 of those years partnered with Duke Snider. In 2003, he described games of the World Series-champion Florida Marlins.