Trivia

Has been the play-by-play voice on radio of the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball since 1974. In 1974, he was selected from over 200 applicants to succeed Al Michaels as the play-by-play "Voice of the Reds" on WLW Radio.

Cincinnati Reds' radio play-by-play voice.

He has periodically called college basketball games during the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and for a short time served as one of the television voices of the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team.

Enshrined in the broadcasters' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, on July 23, 2000. He was the annual recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually since 1978. Except for 1978, when two recipients were named, each subsequent year there has been one winner.

One of several individuals associated with the Cincinnati Reds to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2000. Former Reds Tony Perez and Bid McPhee and former Reds manager Sparky Anderson were also inducted as Reds in 2000. The other Hall of Fame inductees that year were Carlton Fisk and Turkey Stearns.

Prior to his work as a play-by-play voice of the Cincinnati Reds, Brennaman began his broadcasting career at WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina, and followed with stints in Salisbury, North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia. In 1970, he received his first sports play-by-play opportunity, as the radio voice of the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association. He added baseball to his résumé in 1971, calling the action for the baseball Triple-A Tidewater Mets.