2016 Baseball Preview: Will there be joy in Mudville?

Dan enters his 23rd season providing the play-by-play call of Sky Sox Baseball in 2012, making him the longest tenured play-by-play broadcaster with one Professional or Division-I team in the entire state. He is also beginning his 27th season of baseball play-by-play, including the last 24 at the Triple-A level. He spent the 1989 season in Des Moines with the Iowa Cubs. Other stops along the way for Karcher included Bakersfield and Fresno, California and Springfield, Illinois. Raised in Southern California, Karcher received his M.A. degree in speech communications from Bowling Green State University and his B.A. degree in broadcast communications from Cal State Fullerton. During his 24-year stay in Colorado Springs, Karcher has hosted a variety of local sports shows, including "Falcontalk" with Air Force head Football Coach Fisher DeBerry, "The First Team," "Sox and Rox" with the Denver Post beat writer Mike Klis, and a coast-to-coast sports talk program on American Sports Radio Network. In March of 2006, Karcher was honored by the Colorado Broadcaster's Association when he was awarded first place for the "Best Play-By-Play Sports Coverage by a Station Individual/Team". Karcher, who has filled-in on several Rockies broadcasts over the years, is also the lead play-by-play voice of RMAC Football and Basketball telecasts, as well as the Junior College World Series on the Altitude Sports and Entertainment TV Network. Involved with the local chapter of the American Heart Association, Dan resides in Colorado Springs and has four children; Natalie, Ian, Lauren-Danae and Beau, and three grandchildren, Evita, Maria and Tyler-Daniel.