Dan Dickerson always finds joy at the ballpark | 'The PBP: Voices Of Baseball'

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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From 'The PBP: Voices of Baseball' (subscribe here): Matt Spiegel sits down with Detroit Tigers radio voice Dan Dickerson to discuss his path to replace the legendary Ernie Harwell, how he broke into the business and how he's endured some of the worst seasons in MLB history during his time in Detroit. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From 2400 sports, Odyssey and Major League Baseball,
0:07.1	this is the PPP Voices of Baseball.
0:10.3	We bring you the people who bring you the game.
0:14.0	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome in baseball people to this episode of the PPP,
0:20.1	Voices of Baseball. This is going to be a fun one because Dan
0:25.5	Dickerson is terrific as a dude, as a radio broadcaster, and sometime TV broadcaster for the Detroit
0:34.5	Tigers. His origin story is circuitous and strange,
0:39.1	and I did some prep with one of his mentors
0:41.1	within an hour of recording this podcast,
0:44.0	and I bring that to him.
0:45.5	And you're going to hear a ton of really cool highlights
0:48.6	from Tigers Radio,
0:51.0	recent vintage with their playoffs from last year,
0:57.1	and certainly an older vintage with some of the more memorable moments that he's been lucky enough to be the broadcaster for.
1:01.3	Let's get right to it.
1:02.4	On this week's complete game episode of the PPP, it is Dan Dickerson of the Detroit Tigers.
1:20.6	Music It is Dan Dickerson of the Detroit Tigers. I'm glad that Robbie Triano got a chance to reach out to you directly as the lifelong Tigers fan that he is.
1:29.9	His excitement to speak to you, Dan Dickerson, has been palpable.
1:34.9	And so that speaks to the relationship that a fan has specifically with the radio voice.
1:43.5	Oh, yeah.
1:44.0	Would you agree that that relationship, as the listener... that a fan has specifically with the radio voice. Oh, yeah.
1:44.4	Would you agree that that relationship as the listener and the fan ages
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