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Dick Bremer Retires From MN Twins' TV Broadcast Role After 40 Seasons
Over his four-decade career, Dick Bremmer has been in the broadcast booth for 4,972 Minnesota Twins games.
MINNEAPOLIS — Dick Bremer, the television broadcast voice of the Minnesota Twins, is retiring from the role after 40 seasons. The club announced the news on Tuesday.
While the longtime play-by-play announcer is stepping away from the broadcast booth, he plans to transition into a special assistant role for the Twins' front office. The transition will officially take place at the end of the year.
"For 40 years, I've been blessed to totally immerse myself in the game that I love for the team that I love," said Bremer in a statement.
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"In those 40 years, I broadcast 4,972 Twins games. Over the last year or so, I thought it would really be cool to make it to 5,000. Then, I thought to myself, how selfish would that be? A broadcast should NEVER be about the announcer. It should ALWAYS be about the game and those who play it. I hope in my final season, I proved that ‘I've still got my fastball’, a goal I set when I started with the Twins in 1983. I look forward to the next chapter in my life with the Twins and thank Twins Territory for 40 incredible seasons! God bless."
Bremer will retire as the longest-tenured television broadcaster for a single team in Major League Baseball.
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Twins President and CEO Dave St. Peter said that Bremer's four decades as the club's broadcaster "will undoubtedly someday result in his deserved induction into the Twins Hall of Fame."
"While one chapter of his Twins career is closing, we are excited that Dick will continue to write his legacy around the Twins in this Special Assistant Role," St. Peter added.
The Dumont, Minnesota native began his Twins play-by-play career with Spectrum Sports in 1983. Following a one-year hiatus, he rejoined the club’s broadcast team in 1987 and has been the Twins’ television play-by-play voice ever since.
His career spanned Twinsvision, Midwest Sports Channel, Victory Sports, Fox Sports North, and finally Bally Sports North.
In 2013, Bremer was awarded the Silver Circle Emmy for Broadcast Excellence and was inducted into the Minnesota Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
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