History buffs, who was Tiger Stadium announcer before Sid Crocker?

I had to google Sid Crocker. lol

I have no idea. But I do know that Sid Crocker was also the voice of Senor Puppet on the Buckskin Bill show. Hope that helps.

John Ferguson, JC Politz

It's a good question. Don't Borne and Crocker combine to go back to the 1940s?

That's consistency. Like "Steelers Head Coach" consistency.

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Don't know why but we were talking about this last year during a game. Think there was some crossover but was:

Chris Blair
Jim Hawthorne
Dan Borne'
Sid Crocker
John Ferguson

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Well, "Voice of the Tigers" is Ferguson -> Hawthorne -> Blair, which also takes us back to the 1940s (Ferguson was 46 to 87 - 46 because, obviously, he was too busy hauling troops and supplies over the hump in Dubya Dubya II.

But, the PA announcer is different (maybe Ferguson did both - ).

(Speaking of Ferguson, this is one of his WWII stories:

One of Ferguson’s 72 trips involved taking several dozen Chinese soldiers to India for training. An unexpected turn in the weather forced Ferguson to fly higher than planned, close to 20,000 feet. His crew had oxygen. The soldiers didn’t.

“They’d come up to me and say, ‘Sir, all these people are going to be dead,'” Ferguson said. “I said, ‘I can’t help it.’… We stayed up there a good, long while.”

When they landed, Ferguson and crew, convinced the soldiers could not have survived, exited through the front of the plane rather than witness what became of them.

“I was sure all of them were dead, because they had been without oxygen for a long time,” he said. “The troops we had varied in ages from probably 12 to up in the 70s. They all wore cotton long pants and jackets and sandals with no socks and a little hat.”

After about two hours, they opened the rear cargo door.

“One by one over a period of, I guess, a couple of hours, those people came out and lined up in a ragged line. They were all alive,” Ferguson said.

“We all learned to cry that day.”)

John Was The Best

Crocker retired after the 85 season then Borne took over

Crockers obituary said he did it for 30 years, so looking at 1954-55

Crocker was at Pearl Harbor and DDay
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Crocker was the best PA man ever and Ferguson the best play by play man by a long shot.

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Crocker was the best PA man ever

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Can still here his voice. “Doctor 473 please call medical exchange “

Sid Crocker was the first one I remember. I think he was here when the electric loud speaker was invented.