Sherry Davis was the stadium announcer for the San Francisco Giants baseball team from 1993 to 1999. Davis gained immediate attention for becoming the first full-time female stadium announcer for a major league baseball team.[1] Davis, a legal secretary, won the job in an open audition, besting five hundred other candidates.[2] When the Giants relocated from Candlestick Park to the newly constructed AT&T Park (originally named Pacific Bell Park), the Giants declined to renew her contract[3] and replaced her with Renel Brooks-Moon. Papers from Davis' tenure as announcer for the Giants are archived at the Baseball Hall of Fame.[4]
In 2000, Davis became the announcer for the Saint Mary's College of California women's basketball program in Moraga, California.[5]
Davis was born and raised in Virginia,[6] and later graduated from College of Notre Dame of Maryland[7] with a B.A. in Theater. She was an actress in the classics at the Norfolk Theatre Center, 1968–76, when it had taken over the old Norfolk Public Library (Carnegie, 1904).
References edit
- ^ Warren, Jenifer (26 April 1993). "A Giant Hit : Sherry Davis Makes History as Major League Baseball's First Female Stadium Announcer". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Attention, Giants Fans!". Time Magazine. 22 March 1993. Archived from the original on December 6, 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ Beitiks, Edvins (30 December 1999). "Giants let Davis go as stadium P.A. announcer". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Finding Aids for Archival Collections". Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ McManis, Sam (1 December 2000). "Former Giants P.A. Announcer Regains Her Voice at St. Mary's". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Sherry Davis". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
- ^ Clifford, James (12 March 1993). "Major League first: Ballpark announcer is a woman". The Free Lance-Star. Retrieved 30 October 2012.