Happy Baseball Birthday...Roger Hoover

                                   Happy Baseball Birthday! 

                                            🎙UPDATE! 🎙

Today I thought I'd do an update HBB post to wish my friend Roger Hoover a very Happy Baseball Birthday! 


Roger, the voice of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, became an internet sensation when his laptop was destroyed by a foul ball.

I had the pleasure of meeting Roger and getting to see him around Bragan Field during the 2015 season in Jacksonville, and I  an honestly say there's not a better, nicer person in baseball than the 30 year old Tennessee native.


If you'd like to know more about Roger, head over go his site, Hoover Broadcasting.

                   Happy Baseball Birthday! Roger....watch out for those foul balls! 




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Today we celebrate the Happy Baseball Birthday! to Jacksonville Suns play by play guy Roger Hoover.

Roger Hoover was born in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Roger is in his third year as the Suns Director of Broadcasting and lead play by play announcer and has broadcast Southern League Baseball for five years, including three SL All Star Games.

All 140 Suns games are broadcast on the teams flagship station, Classic Rock 94.1, WSOS-FM and streamed live at jaxsuns.com

This season the Suns are broadcasting 11 home games on local TV, on CW 17.

Roger Hoover graduated from the University of Tennessee, and he served as color analyst for the Vols baseball games in 2012.

You can follow Roger on Twitter... @Roger_Hoover and the Suns on Twitter at @sunsbaseball

Give Roger a big Happy Baseball Birthday shoutout today, or at the the ballpark this weekend.

Happy Baseball Birthday! Roger! 

Go Suns! Never Been Hotter! 

Play Ball!

Thanks to the Jacksonville Suns for the info provided in this years game program, jaxsuns.com, and Tales from Bragan Field on sunsradio.com

Peter Bragan, Sr. heads Inaugural Southern League Hall of Fame

Today the Southern League announced the ten members of the Inaugural Southern League Baseball Hall of Fame.

Each one of the ten S.L. teams has a representative member in addition to former S.L. Commissioners Billy Hitchcock, Bobby Bragan, and Don Mincher, who were announced in July, 2013.

***The Inaugural 2014 Southern League Hall of Fame Class***

*Jacksonville Suns...Peter Bragan, Sr. (Sun's owner)

*Montgomery Biscuits...Alan Trammell(1977 Montgomery Rebels/1977 SL MVP)

*Mississippi Braves...Dale Murphy(1976 Savannah Braves)

*Mobile Bay Bears...Mike Darr(1998 Bay Bears)

*Jackson Generals...Bo Jackson(1986 Memphis Chicks)

*Birmingham Barons...Reggie Jackson(1967 Birmingham A's)

*Tennessee Smokies...Ryne Sandberg(2009 Tennessee MGR)

*Pensacola Blue Wahoos..Tim Wakefield(1991 Carolina Mudcats)

* Chattanooga Lookouts...J. Frank Burke(Lookouts GM)

*Huntsville Stars...Rosemary Hovatter(30 years front office)

As a Detroit fan I'm proud that the greatest shortstop in Tigers history is being recognized for his 1977 MVP season as a Montgomery Rebel.

Trammell hit .291 with a S.L. Record 19 triples.

I'm also very proud that Peter Bragan, Sr., the longtime owner of the Jacksonville Suns, will be honored in this first class.

Mr. Bragan, who passed away in 2012, bought the struggling franchise here in Jacksonville in 1984, and with his son, Pedro, made the Suns the standard for all minor league baseball.

The Sun's first ever Southern League Championship came under the Bragan leadership, in 1996, then the Double A Affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.

The Sun's have won five S.L. titles under the Bragan's ownership.

More than the winning baseball, the Suns have become a Jacksonville love affair between the fans, players, and ownership.

I saw my first Sun's game in 1981, before the Bragan's ownership, and will always have a special place in my heart for Mr. Bragan, Pedro, his staff, the players, and the great baseball fans here in Jacksonville.

I also had the pleasure of meeting Bobby Bragan, Peter's brother, at the J. C. Penny store I was working at , in 1983, when Bobby was working for the Texas Rangers.

The Bragan's are the reason we have the beautiful Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, the Suns home since 2003.

The Suns had played in old Wolfson Park since the early 1960s.

After his passing, the Suns renamed their home Bragan Field at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.

Congratulations to all the inductees, it should be a great ceremony at this year's S.L. All-Star Game, to be played in Chattanooga on June 17th.

Play Ball!

Baseball's Never Been Hotter with the Jacksonville Suns

The Jacksonville Sun's open their 2014 Southern League schedule tonight at Bragan Field.

The Sun's begin the season with a five game honest and with the Huntsville Stars.

This is the 30th year of Sun's baseball under the ownership of the Bragan family, who took ownership of the Sun's franchise in 1985.

This is my 34th baseball season living in Jacksonville, and I look forward to going to see the Sun's play again this year.